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To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or
standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of
ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure. |
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To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or
fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence. |
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To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of;
to verify; as, to prove a will. |
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To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by
trial; to experience; to suffer. |
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To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness
of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference
between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to
the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved. |
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To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to
prove a page. |
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To make trial; to essay. |
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To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out
to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false. |
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To succeed; to turn out as expected. |
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