semiproof
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
semiproof (plural semiproofs)
- (obsolete) Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness.
- 1662, George Pellisson, A Miscellany of divers Problems:
- there are some things which being not able to pass for entire proofs, do pass for semiproofs
References edit
- “semiproof”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.