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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.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea. -- n.

ve division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.

Having the form or uses of a proboscis; as, a proboscidiform mouth.

The nose. [Jocose] Proboscis monkey. (Zoöl.) See Kahau.

An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.

A salt of pyroboric acid.

Pertaining to derived from, or designating, an acid, H2B4O7 (called also tetraboric acid), which is the acid ingredient of ordinary borax, and is obtained by heating boric acid.

Reprobation. [R.]

Reprobation. [Obs.] Shak.

uring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.] Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30.

The state of being reprobate.