PROVE, PROVING
ADJECTIVES
► PROBANT proving, demonstrating, convincing → 1908
NOUNS
► VEREFIANCE the act of proving; verification, confirmation → c1450 obs.
► VERMENT averment; the act of proving, verification → 1472 obs.
VERBS
► AFOND to put to the test; to prove, to try out; to test by experiment or experience; also, to experience, to undergo → 1000 obs.
► IMPROVE to prove, to establish, to demonstrate, to show to be true or real → 1613 obs.
► INSTRUCT to prove clearly → 1727 Sc. obs.
► QUALIFY to prove; to authenticate, to make good; to testify to → 1746 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
► SHEET HOME to prove something against → 1846 Aust. sl.