PROBATIONARY
PROBA'TIONARY, adjective Serving for trial.All the probationary work of man is ended when death arrives.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PROBATIONER
PROBA'TIONER, noun One who is on trial, or in a state to give proof of certain qualifications for a place or state.While yet a young probationerAnd candidate for heaven.1. A nov...
PROBATIONERSHIP
PROBA'TIONERSHIP, noun The state of being a probationer; novitiate. [Little used.]
PROBATIONSHIP
PROBA'TIONSHIP, noun A state of probation; novitiate; probation. [Little used and unnecessary.]
PROBATIVE
PRO'BATIVE, adjective Serving for trial or proof.
PROBATOR
PROBA'TOR, noun [Latin] An examiner; an approver.1. In law, an accuser.
PROBATORY
PRO'BATORY, adjective Serving for trial.1. Serving for proof.2. Relating to proof.Probatum est, [Latin it is proved.] an expression subjoined to a receipt for the cure of a dise...
PROBE
PROBE, noun [Latin probo.] A surgeon's instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, or for searching for s...
PROBE-SCISSORS
PRO'BE-SCISSORS, noun Scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end.
PROBITY
PROB'ITY, noun [Latin probitas, from probo, to prove.]Primarily, tried virtue or integrity, or approved actions; but in general, strict honesty; sincerity; veracity; integrity i...
PROBLEM
PROB'LEM, noun [Latin problema; Gr. to throw forward, and to throw; Latin pello.] A question proposed.1. In logic, a preposition that appears neither absolutely true nor false, ...
PROBLEMATICAL
PROBLEMAT'ICAL, adjective Questionable; uncertain; unsettled; disputable; doubtful.Diligent inquiries into problematical guilt, leave a gate wide open to informers.
PROBLEMATICALLY
PROBLEMAT'ICALLY, adverb Doubtfully; dubiously; uncertainly.
PROBLEMATIZE
PROB'LEMATIZE, verb transitive To propose problems. [Ill formed and not used.]
PROBOSCIS
PROBOS'CIS, noun [Latin from Gr. before, and to feed or graze.]The snout or trunk of an elephant and of other animals, particularly of insects. The proboscis of an elephant is a...
PROCACIOUS
PROCA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin procax; pro, forward.]petulant; saucy. [Little used.]
PROCACITY
PROCAC'ITY, noun [Latin procacitas.]Impudence; petulance. [Little used.]
PROCATARCTIC
PROCATARC'TIC, adjective [Gr. to begin.] In medicine, pre-existing or predisposing; remote; as procatarctic causes of a disease, in distinction from immediate or exciting causes...
PROCATARXIS
PROCATARX'IS, noun [Gr. supra.]The predisposing cause of a disease.
PROCEDE
PROCE'DE, verb intransitive [Latin procedo; pro, forward, and cedo, to move. the more correct orthography is procede in analogy with precede, concede, recede, procedure.]1. To m...
PROCEDURE
PROCE'DURE, noun The act of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; series of actions; as the procedure of the soul in certain actions. But it is more genera...
PROCEED
PROCEE'DPROCEE'DER, noun One who goes forward, or who makes a progress.
PROCEEDER
PROCEE'DER, n. One who goes forward, or who makes a progress.
PROCEEDING
PROCEE'DING, participle present tense Moving forward; passing on; issuing; transacting; carrying on.PROCEE'DING, noun Process or movement from one thing to another; a measure or...
PROCEEDS
PROCEE'DS, nounplural Issue; rent; produce; as the proceeds of an estate.1. In commerce, the sum, amount or value of goods sold or converted into money. The consignee was direct...
PROCELEUSMATIC
PROCELEUSMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. mandate, incitement.]Inciting; animating; encouraging. This epithet is given to a metrical foot in poetry, consisting of four short syllables.
PROCEPTION
PROCEP'TION, noun Preoccupation. [Ill formed and not in use.]