probate

From Latin probatus, past participle of probare (“to test, examine, judge of”); see probe, prove.

• Rhymes: -əʊbeɪt

probate (countable and uncountable, plural probates)

1. (law) The legal process of verifying the legality of a will.
2. (law) A copy of a legally recognised and qualified will.
3. Clipping of probate court.
4. (obsolete) proof

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probate (third-person singular simple present probates, present participle probating, simple past and past participle probated)

1. (transitive) To establish the legality of (a will).

• probe
• probation
• prove

• probate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• probate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

probate

1. definite and plural of probat

probāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of probō