Search the Dictionary

Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. [Obs.] A solemn contestation ratified on the part of God. Barrow.

h contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. Locke.

To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove. Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. Hooker.

To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof. Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others. Atterbury.

One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.

One who reads copy to a proof reader.

f the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. -- Corpus luteum (l; pl. Corpora lutea (-. Etym: [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Grafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. -- Corpus striatum (str…

To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

ich is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.

Chiding; reproof; reproach. [Obs.] Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend. Hammond.

freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt. Burril.

t forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. Swift. -- Counter proof, in engraving, a print taken off from another just printed, which, by being passed through the press, gives a copy in reverse, and of course in the same position as that of plate from which the first was printed, the object…

A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Compa…

To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter.

who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.

Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh. You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength. Shak.

A revoling shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.

The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.

nclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam.