Word Meanings - PROBACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Proof; trial. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to PROBACY)
- TRIALITY
Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton. - PROOF-PROOF
Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley. - TRIALOGUE
A discourse or colloquy by three persons. - PROOF
A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. (more info) 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. - TRIAL BALANCE
The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whether the sum of the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals - PROOF-ARM
To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself. Beau. & Fl. - TRIAL
The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, - PROOFLESS
Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved. Boyle. -- Proof"less*ly, adv. - SELF-REPROOF
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment. - HIGH-PROOF
1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak. - PLOT-PROOF
Secure against harm by plots. Shak. - DISPROOF
A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers. - BULLET-PROOF
Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree. - STARPROOF
Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. Milton. - WATERPROOF
Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof. - BOMBPROOF
Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n. - WEATHERPROOF
Proof against rough weather. - INDUSTRIALLY
With reference to industry. - INDUSTRIAL
Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. The great ideas of industrial development and economic social - SHELLPROOF
Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof. - SEPTENTRIAL
Septentrional. Drayton. - BEAD PROOF
1. Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters. 2. A degree of - RETRIAL
A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person. - SUPERTERRESTRIAL
Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth. Buckminster. - PEDESTRIALLY
In a pedestrial manner.