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proved, ppl. a.|pruːvd|
Forms: see prove v.
[f. prove v. + -ed1.]
1. Tried, tested; hence, That has stood a trial or test; approved, trustworthy, trusty.
a1340Hampole Psalter xvii. 25 Þe temptaciouns of proued men. 1451J. Capgrave St. Aug. (E.E.T.S.) 14 He, with ful good a-vise, sent hem Austyn, a preued maystir. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 36 The best proued men that they coulde finde. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle Title-p., Search herein, and thou shalt find, of prooued remedies quickly. 1850Lynch Theo. Trin. ix. 176 The saved companies of heaven will be..happy societies of proved men.
2. Shown to be true, or to be as stated; demonstrated. Hence, † Known as such, notorious (obs.).
14..Stockh. Med. MS. i. 77 in Anglia XVIII. 297 Þis is prowyd thinge for þe suth [MS. syth]. 1562Child-Marriages 207 [She] said he was ‘a provid thief, & all his kinne’; and apon that, he callid her ‘provid hoore’. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. xi. 326 A custom of proved antiquity. 1941A. Tarski Introd. Logic i. vi. 118 Statements established in this way are called proved statements or theorems. 1965B. Mates Elem. Logic vi. 97 We may wish to use previously proved theorems.
3. Of which probate has been granted.
1890Whitaker's Alm. 640 (heading) Where to find a proved will.
Hence ˈprovedly adv.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] lxxvii. 221 One would thinke it strange,..yet it is provedly true. 1892R. Kipling in Pall Mall G. 24 Mar. 3/2 Having..reverence only for that which was indubitably and provedly stronger than themselves. 1901N. & Q. 9th Ser. VIII. 455/1 Of the plays contained in the present volume two only are provedly his. |