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A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.

Act of disproving; disproof. [R.]

Proving by experiments or tests. Docimastic art, metallurgy, or the art of assaying metals; the art of separating metals from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substances contained in any ore or mineral.

ont given by one to the other. Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.

Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ly, adv. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ness, n.

Migratory; roving. [Obs.]

An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.

Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven. Sir T. Browne.

A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison.

Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore.

A wandering; a roving about. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.] The rest of his journey, his error by sea. B. Jonson.

The science of improving stock, whether human or animal. F. Galton.

A wandering about; excursion; a roving. [R.] Ray.

Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.

The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.

Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. -- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness, , n.

Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. [Obs.] The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak.

In a roving, idle manner.

A roving vagabond. [Obs.] Rom. of R.