Definition of prove

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Prove (v. t.) To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure..

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Provent :: Provent (n.) See Provand.
Stultiloquence :: Stultify (v. t.) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided..
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..
Intent :: Intent (a.) Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement..
Prove :: Prove (v. t.) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will..
Tambourin :: Tambourin (n.) An old Provencal dance of a lively character, common on the stage..
Lecture :: Lecture (v. t.) To reprove formally and with authority.
Accept :: Accept (v. t.) To receive with favor; to approve.
Exercise :: Exercise (n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition..
Betray :: Betray (v. t.) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause..
Probable :: Probable (a.) Capable of being proved.
Disavow :: Disavow (v. t.) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
Mechitarist :: Mechitarist (n.) One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.
Increpate :: Increpate (v. t.) To chide; to rebuke; to reprove.
Approve :: Approve (v. t.) To show to be real or true; to prove.
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime..
Reprove :: Reprove (v. t.) To convince.
Approver :: Approver (v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.
Convict :: Convict (v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
Discommend :: Discommend (v. t.) To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.
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