Definition of proof

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Proof (a.) Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.

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Hearing :: Hearing (n.) A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues..
Reproof :: Reproof (n.) Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
Argument :: Argument (n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation..
Postulated :: Postulated (a.) Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference..
Counterprove :: Counterprove (v. t.) To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter..
Lesson :: Lesson (n.) A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
Reprimand :: Reprimand (n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public..
Waterproofing :: Waterproofing (n.) Same as Waterproof, n., 1..
Evidence :: Evidence (n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement..
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever..
Lecture :: Lecture (n.) A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
Approof :: Approof (n.) Approval; commendation.
Slicker :: Slicker (n.) A waterproof coat.
Instance :: Instance (n.) That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example.
Overproof :: Overproof (a.) Containing more alcohol than proof spirit; stronger than proof spirit; that is, containing more than 49.3 per cent by weight of alcohol..
Autonomy :: Autonomy (n.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty..
Repreve :: Repreve (n.) Reproof.
Probacy :: Probacy (n.) Proof; trial.
Confront :: Confront (v. t.) To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing..
Catechise :: Catechise (v. t.) To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct..
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