English edit

Etymology edit

counter- +‎ prove

Verb edit

counterprove (third-person singular simple present counterproves, present participle counterproving, simple past and past participle counterproved)

  1. (printing, transitive) To take a counterproof of.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 counterprove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)