comprobation

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin comprobatio.

Noun

comprobation (countable and uncountable, plural comprobations)

1. (obsolete) joint attestation; proof
   • 1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     Thus in law both Civill and Divine, that is only esteemed a legall testimony, which receives comprobation from the mouths of at least two witnesses;

2. (obsolete) approbation

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “comprobation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)