transitive. To prove true; to verify, confirm.

transitive. To prove or show (a fact, statement, etc.) to be true; to verify, demonstrate. Also const. on (a person). Obsolete.

With sentence as obj.: To prove, try to find out, see.

transitive. To exhibit, display, or manifest practically (a feeling, quality, capacity, etc.); hence, to exercise, practise, perform, do. Obsolete.

transitive. To speak for, answer for, justify.

To display (a quality, condition, feeling, etc.) by one's actions or behaviour; to give proof of… transitive. With clause (esp. that-clause) as…

transitive. To show the existence or reality of; to give demonstration or proof of by action; to evince. Usually with object modified by possessive…

transitive. To prove to be true.

To render indubitable, support by proof or testimony.

To make good (a statement or position); to show to be true, prove, demonstrate. with subordinate clause. Obsolete.

To show to be true by demonstration or evidence; to confirm the truth or authenticity of; to substantiate. Of persons. Now rare.

transitive. To make good (an argument, statement, or opinion); to confirm or support by attestation or evidence; to corroborate, prove, verify…

To show or find to be so by test or experience; to prove, demonstrate. (With simple object, object clause, infinitive, or object and complement.) Now…

transitive. To speak or write in reply or opposition to (a charge or accusation); to defend or justify oneself verbally in regard to. Also: to…

= approve, v.1

To prove (something, as a statement, a charge, a boast, etc.) to be true or valid; to demonstrate the truth of; to substantiate.

To prove, establish by proof, as against assertions to the contrary. (= convince, v. 5) (Originally of things blamable.) Obsolete.

To prove true, verify.

To prove or evince; to afford good ground for inferring, show weighty reasons for supposing; to… a person or thing to be so-and-so.

Law. transitive. To ascertain the validity of (an indictment, etc.). Now U.S.

transitive. To prove, establish. Obsolete.

transitive. To prove, confirm; to approve, sanction.

transitive. To establish the truth of (a proposition, theory, claim, etc.) by reasoning or deduction or (in later use) by providing practical…

transitive. To lead to the conclusion; to demonstrate, prove. (Said of a person, an argument, etc.) Const. object and complement, or subordinate c…

To demonstrate or prove (originally something reprehensible, but subsequently also in a neutral or… a person to be or to have done something.

To give evidence, furnish proof, that.

transitive. To establish (something) by argument or evidence, to prove; = evince, v. 4. Often with clause as object, or with complement introduced…

To acknowledge and support or justify; to make good, establish, prove (with).

To demonstrate by means of evidence. transitive. Of a person, factual information, testimony, etc.: to establish (a fact, etc.) by means of…

transitive. To make plain or manifest; to demonstrate, show; to reveal. Also with to. Obsolete.

To make manifest, demonstrate, prove. Obsolete.

To prove (a charge). Obsolete.

transitive. To show, demonstrate.

To prove by argument or evidence; to establish. Also, rarely, To prove the rightness of, vindicate. Const. with simple object.

To prove by argument or evidence; to establish. Also, rarely, To prove the rightness of, vindicate. Const. with object clause.

transitive. To prove, establish, demonstrate; to show to be true or real. Cf. approve, v.1 1.

transitive and intransitive. To remonstrate (in various senses).

transitive. To establish by evidence, argument, or investigation; to demonstrate, prove. Now frequently colloquial in phrases such as: how do you make…

with infinitive phr. To establish, prove (a thing to be so and so). Obsolete.

To demonstrate, establish clearly. Obsolete.

Scottish. intransitive. To make progress; to prosper, be successful. Also transitive: to get through or accomplish (a task, etc.).

With complement. transitive. To show or demonstrate (a person) to be of a certain character. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To prove the truth of (a charge, claim, etc.); to demonstrate or verify (something) by evidence; to give good grounds for, to justify.

To place beyond dispute; to prove (a proposition, claim, accusation); rarely with personal object and complement.

To exhibit, shew. (With complement.)

transitive. To make real or actual; to convert (something imagined, planned, etc.) into real existence or fact; to bring (a scheme, ambition, etc.)…

To make valid or of good authority; to confirm or corroborate; to substantiate or support.