Definition of prove

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Prove (v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved..

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Allegation :: Allegation (n.) A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved..
Improve :: Improve (v. t.) To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence..
Provant :: Provant (v. t.) To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.
Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
Retouch :: Retouch (v. t.) To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay..
Reform :: Reform (v. t.) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals..
Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
Provable :: Provable (a.) Capable of being proved; demonstrable.
Bastardize :: Bastardize (v. t.) To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
Demonstrable :: Demonstrable (a.) Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.
Cumulative :: Cumulative (a.) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
Control :: Control (v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
Toleration :: Toleration (n.) The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.
Amphigory :: Amphigory (n.) A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless..
Improve :: Improve (v. t.) To disprove or make void; to refute.
Approvable :: Approvable (a.) Worthy of being approved; meritorious.
Demonstrable :: Demonstrable (a.) Proved; apparent.
Provect :: Provect (a.) Carried forward; advanced.
Probate :: Probate (n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved..
Testifier :: Testifier (n.) One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness to prove anything; a witness..
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