comprobation
English
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editcomprobation (countable and uncountable, plural comprobations)
- (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;
- (obsolete) approbation
- 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
- the comprobation of the beſt and most famous learned men
References
edit“comprobation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.