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▪ I. † ˈprobatory, n. Obs. rare.
[ad. med.L. probātōri-um, neut. n. from probātōrius: see next.]
1. A house for probationers or novices.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 151 In the same yeere Christian, Bishop of Lismore..and Pope Eugenius a venerable man, with whom hee was in the Probatory at Clarevall,..departed to Christ.
2. (See quot.) rare—0.
1670Blount Glossogr. (ed. 3), Probatory, (from probo) the place where proof or trial is made of any thing, or the Instrument that tries it.
▪ II. probatory, a.|ˈprəʊbətərɪ|
[ad. med.L. probātōri-us belonging to trial or proof, f. ppl. stem of L. probāre to prove: see -ory2. Cf. F. probatoire (1762 in Dict. Acad.).]
1. = probative 1; testing. Now rare.
1625Ussher Answ. Jesuit 172 Although it be a probatory, and not a purgatory fire that the Apostle there treateth of. 1662Hibbert Body Div. i. 130 Those tribulations..were onely probatory, to trie his strength. 1799Usef. Proj. in Ann. Reg. 411/1 Preparation of the new probatory Liquor [= testing liquid]. 1874Bushnell Forgiveness & Law ii. 139 In a scheme of probatory discipline. 1970Internat. Jrnl. Cancer V. 311/1 Samples of tumours or normal tissue were obtained by probatory excision.
†2. = probative 2; proving. Obs. rare.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 325, I am content to referre Incredulity, to the visible, and palpable euidence of the Terme Probatory. 1638Featly Transubst. 179 That [these words] are not argumentative or probatorie. 1656Artif. Handsom. 126 His other heap of arguments are only assertory, not probatory.
3. (See quot.)
1924P. S. Allen in Library Mar. 255 The manuscripts are identified in the catalogue by the first words of the second leaf, the ‘probatory words’. |