probate

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊbeɪt/

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• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊbɪt/, /ˈpɹəʊbət/
• 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.
   • a. 1529, John Skelton, Garlande of Laurell:

     Macrobius that did trete
     Of Scipions dreme what was the treu probate

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “probate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

probate

1. inflection of probat:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

probāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of probō

probate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of probar combined with te