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Probationary.

Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial. To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. Paley.

One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice. While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. Dryden.

The state of being a probationer; novitiate. Locke.

A state of probation.

Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence. South.

An examiner; an approver. Maydman.

Serving for trial; probationary. Abp. Bramhall.

To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.

See Porbeagle.

Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. "Probity of mind." Pope.

A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt. Bacon.

Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful. -- Prob`lem*at"ic*al*ly, adv. Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers. Swift.

One who proposes problems. [R.] Evelyn.

To propose problems. [R.] "Hear him problematize." B. Jonson.

Having a proboscis; proboscidial.

An order of large mammal

Proboscidian.

Proboscidate.