Probate(a.) Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.
Probate(n.) Proof.
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.
Probate(n.) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.
Probate(v. t.) To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.
Probation(n.) The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof.
Probation(n.) Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a person on probation.
Probation(n.) The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule.
Probation(n.) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor.
Probation(n.) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state.
Probational(a.) Probationary.
Probative(a.) Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence.
Probator(n.) An examiner; an approver.
Probator(n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.
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