Word Meanings - PROBATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor. 2. Any proceeding designed

Additional info about word: PROBATION

1. The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor. 2. Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a person on probation. Hence, specifically: 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. The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor. 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. No seems so reasonable as that which regards it as a state of probation. Paley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROBATION)

• Ordeal
• Test
• trial
• probation
• experiment
• Proof
• examination
• criterion
• essay
• establishment
• demonstration
• evidence
• testimony
• scrutiny

Related words: (words related to PROBATION)

• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• PROBATION
  1. The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor. 2. Any proceeding designed
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• TESTIMONY
  The two tables of the law. Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Ex. xxv. 16. 6. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Ps. xix. Syn. -- Proof; evidence;
• EXPERIMENTIST
  An experimenter.
• ESSAY
  A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
• EXPERIMENTATOR
  An experimenter.
• PROOF-PROOF
  Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• EXPERIMENTER
  One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.
• PROBATIONARY
  Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial. To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. Paley.
• PROBATIONSHIP
  A state of probation.
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• ESSAYIST
  A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson.
• TRIALOGUE
  A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
• ORDEAL
  G. urteil, urtheil; orig., what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to a- compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. 1. An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common
• 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.
• EXPERIMENTATION
  The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.
• CRITERION
  A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them. Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• 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.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• WATER ORDEAL
  See 1
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• 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.