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g probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood. Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so. Locke.

The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.

ncient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.

Probability; likelihood. [Obs.] There is that which hath no appearance. Bacon.

Probability.

is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. J. S. Mill.

uish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.

The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

accruing from tendency or inclination. The good will of a trade is nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place. Lord Eldon. -- In good time. (a) Promptly; punctually; opportunely; not too soon nor too late. (b) (Mus.) Correctly; in proper time. -- To hold good, to remain true…

or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true. Locke. Such opportunities always infer obligations. Atte…

Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.

Having probability; affording probability; probable; likely. [Likely is more used now.] Shak. But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices. South. Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules. Clarendon.

Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. Tennyson.

Likelihood; probability.

Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain.

Contingency or liability; possibility or probability. Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance Some general maxims, or be right by chance. Pope.

, which arise from the chance union of these germ cells in pairs, according to the law of probability, are therefore on an average in the following proportions:

Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.