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probative, a.|ˈprəʊbətɪv|
[ad. L. probātīv-us belonging to proof: see probate ppl. a. and -ive.]
1. Having the quality or function of testing; serving or designed for trial or probation; probationary. Now rare.
1453in Epist. Acad. Oxon. (O.H.S.) I. 320 We assignyd to them a terme probatiffe. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 559 The second are exemplarie, purgatiue, probatiue, or for the edifying of the Church. 1730Waterland Script. Vind. i. 79 A much better Argument against human Sacrifices, than a probative Command, not executed, could be for it. 1816Bentham Chrestom. ii. 18 On the constancy of the application made of the correspondent probative exercise, by which a lesson is said, depends all the use derivable from any mathetic exercise.
2. Having the quality or function of proving or demonstrating; affording proof or evidence; demonstrative, evidential.
1681Sc. Acts Chas. II (1820) VIII. 242/2 Act concerning probative witnesses in writs & Executions. Ibid. 243/1 None but subscryving witnesses shall be probative in Executions of Messingers [etc.]. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 18 The principal fact may, in a more expressive way, be termed the fact proved: the evidentiary, the probative fact. 1868Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 10 §142 Which [certificates] shall..be probative of such registration. 1875Poste Gaius iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 412 Cautio..signified a probative or evidentiary document, as opposed to a literal contract. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIV. 222 A theorem deducible only from the conjunction of axioms as their only implicate is, therefore, most probative of the theory that contains them. 1972Mod. Law Rev. XXXV. i. 73 The views of the majority have been treated as the most probative, if not the dispositive, factor. 1975Sci. Amer. May 118/1 A new argument for credibility seemed to have emerged when one of the troubled men underwent a polygraph test, which at best is hardly fully probative.
Hence ˈprobatively adv., in a probative manner; in the way of probation, or of proof; ˈprobativeness, the quality of affording proof.
1869Browning Ring & Bk. x. 1415 'Tis even as man grew probatively Initiated in Godship. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIV. 222 Theorems differ in their degree of probativeness of a theory. 1973N.Y. Law Jrnl. 20 July 2/2 Movant has failed to probatively demonstrate that respondent has willfully failed and refused to comply with the judgment of the court. |