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ased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved. Bouvier. Burrill.

To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially. I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton.

To agree; to concur. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

To disapprove of; to disallow. [Obs.]

during 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.

One who reprobates.

One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Cor. ix. 27.

not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier.

upon a party by the law. Burril. Bouvier. Dative executor, one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.

ce of a bad quality. A desperate offendress against nature. Shak. The most desperate of reprobates. Macaulay.

Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.

ry decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.

ters testamentary (Law), an instrument granted by the proper officer to an executor after probate of a will, authorizing him to act as executor. -- Letter writer. (a) One who writes letters. (b) A machine for copying letters. (c) A book giving directions and forms for the writing of letters.

Not chosen orr received; rejected. [Obs.] "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.

o disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit. To renounce probate (Law), to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W.

The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure. The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.…

Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2.

rticular time or the existence of a special cause, as during a controversy respecting the probate of a will, or the right of administration, etc. -- Special agency, an agency confined to some particular matter. -- Special bail, Bail above, or Bail to the action (Law), sureties who undertake that, if the defendant is…

In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.