3. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
4. To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
Where she, captived long, great woes did prove.
Spenser. 5. (Arith.) 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.
6. (Printing) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
Syn. — To try; verify; justify; confirm; establish; evince; manifest; show; demonstrate.
Prove
(Prove), v. i.
1. To make trial; to essay.
2. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report
proves false. "The case proves mortal." Arbuthnot.
So life a winter's morn may prove.
Keble. 3. To succeed; to turn out as expected. [Obs.] "The experiment proved not." Bacon.
Provect
(Pro*vect") a. [L. provectus, p. p. of provehere to carry forward.] Carried forward; advanced.
[Obs.] "Provect in years." Sir T. Flyot.
Provection
(Pro*vec"tion) n. [L. provectio an advancement.] (Philol.) A carrying forward, as of a final
letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename.
Proveditor
(Pro*ved"i*tor) n. [It. proveditore, provveditore, fr. provedere, L. providere. See Provide,
and cf. Purveyor, Provedore.] One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a
purveyor; one who provides for another. Jer. Taylor.
Provedore
(Prov"e*dore) n. [Cf. Sp. proveedor. See Proveditor.] A proveditor; a purveyor.
Busied with the duties of a provedore.
W. Irving. Proven
(Prov"en) p. p. or a. Proved. "Accusations firmly proven in his mind." Thackeray.
Of this which was the principal charge, and was generally believed to beproven, he was acquitted.
Jowett Not proven (Scots Law), a verdict of a jury that the guilt of the accused is not made out, though not
disproved. Mozley & W.
Provençal
(||Pro`ven`çal") a. [F., fr. Provence, fr. L. provincia province. See Provincial.]
Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
Provençal
(||Pro`ven`çal"), n. [F.]
1. A native or inhabitant of Provence in France.
2. The Provencal language. See Langue d'oc.
