probate duty (probatdu"ti)

A tax on property pa ing by will. probation (pro-bā'shon), n. [ probation = Pr. proazo, probatio = Sp. probacion = Pg. pro vação = It. prob azione, And what he with his oath And all probation will make up full clear. Shak., M. for M., v. 1. 157. He that must eat an hour before his time gives prob a tion of his intemperance or his weakne . Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 35. 4742 to those to whom it was never preached, or who never apprehended it, in this life, particularly to the heathen and to those dying in infancy. In this latter and more common form entertained by members of estant denominations. This doctrine is distinguishable from the doctrine of purgatory, or future disciplinary sufferings for the faithful, supposed to be nece ary for their purification, and from the various forms of universalism, which holds that in a future probation all men will sooner or later accept the gospel. probational (pro-bā'shon-al), a. [ Their afflictions are not penal, but medicinal, or prob a tional . Bp . Richardson , Obs. on the Old Testament, p. 278. probationary (pro-bā shon-ā-ri), a . [ prob a tion + -ary .] Pertaining to probation; embracing or serving for trial or probation. Like Eden's dread probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from Thee. Cowper , Progre of Error, 1. 468. That the present life is a sufficient period of probation ary existence to the Righteous will be readily acknowledged by all men. Timothy Dwight , Sermons, clxiii. probationer (pro-ba's hon-er), n. [ Every day gain to their college some new probationer . B. Jonson , Epicœne, i. 1. While yet a young probationer And candidate for heaven. Dryden, To the Memory of Mrs. Anne Kill i grew, 1. 21. Specifically- ( a ) A novice. A stripling divine or two of those newly-fledged prob a tioners that usually come scouting from the university, and lie here no lame legers to pop into the Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton , Col aster i on. Lamb , Old Actors. Green probationers in mischief. ( b ) In the Presbyterian churches in Scotland, one who has been licensed to preach, but who has not been ordained or does not hold a pastoral charge. How do they expect a probationer to become a capable teacher if they never give him the chance of a pulpit? W. Black, In Far Lochaber, viii. (c) In the Meth . Epis . Ch ., a candidate for membership received for a specified period on trial before final admi ion. probationership (pro-bā'shon-ér-ship), n. probationer + -ship .] The condition or state of being a probationer. Take, problem if your point be rest, Lettuce and cowslip wine; Probatum est. Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 18. probe (prob), b), v. t.; pret. and pp. probed, ppr. probing. [L. probare, test, examine, prove, Yet durst she not too deeply probe the wound. Dryden, Hind and Panther, iii. Thither too the woodcock led her brood, to probe the mud for worms. Thoreau , Walden, p. 245. 2. Figuratively, to search to the bottom; scrutinize; examine thoroughly into. The late discu ions in parliament, and the growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts of the crown, rendered the merchants more discontented than ever. Hallam . Why do I seek to probe my fellow's sin? William Morris , Earthly Paradise, II. 170. 3. To prick, as a sealed can, so as to allow the compre ed air or gas within to escape. probe (prōb), n. [ We who believe life's bases rest Beyond the probe of chemic test. 2t. A printer's proof. Lowell . He has afforded us the twilight of probability, suitable to that state of mediocrity and probationership. probe-sci ors (prob's iz orz), n. pl. Sci ors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to admit of being thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. What portion of the probationists uniting with the M. E. church become full members? The Congregationalist , May 14, 1885. probation ship (prō-bā'shon-ship), n. [ Before the end of these ladies' probation ship and matriculation, his majesty charged the cathedral doctors to dismi them out of the university. Translation of Boccalini (1626), p. 202. ( Latham .) probative (prōbā-tiv), a . [ probate + -ive .] 1. Serving to test or prove. Some are only probative , and designed to try and stir up those virtues which before lay dormant in the soul. South , Sermons, IV. ix. 2. Pertaining to proof or demonstration: as, the probative force of evidence. prob at or (pro-bāʼtor), n. [L. prob at or, examiner, approver, see probate, prove.] 1. An examiner.-2t. In character, qualifications, the like; trial; examination. Let us buy our entrance to this guild [friendship] by a long probation . Emerson, Friendship. Life is probation , and this earth no goal, But starting-point of man. Browning , Ring and Book, II. 211. Specifically- (a) Eccles ., the trial of a candidate for church membership, holy orders, or other ecclesiastical position and functions, preparatory to his final admi ion thereto. (b) In theol ., moral trial; a state of life affording an opportunity to test moral character. 3. Any period of trial. Specifically-( a ) In religious houses, the period for the trial of a novice before he or she takes the vows of the monastic order. IMG:content-1005.png:[blocks in formation] an approver. probatory (prō bā-to-ri), a. and n. [ IMG:content-1006.png:[blocks in formation] A minister [Walpole]...who had seen so much perfidy and meanne that he had become sceptical as to the existence of probity . Macaulay , Lord Holland. Let the reign of the good Stuyvesant show. how frankne , probity , and high-souled courage will command respect, and secure honor, even where succe is unattainable. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 469. =Syn. Integrity , Uprightne , etc. (see honesty ), worth, trustworthine , trustine , incorruptibility. problem (problem), n . [ probleme , probleme , F. problème = Sp. Pg. It. problem a = D. probleem, problem a = G. Sw. Dan. problem, posed for before, for trial; being a proof or test. Job's afflictions were no vindicatory punishments, but probatory chastisements to make trial of his graces. Abp . Bramhall . 2. Pertaining to or serving for proof. His other heap of arguments are a ertory, not probatory . Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomene , p. 126. II. n.; pl. prob a tories (-riz). A house for novices. and In the same yeere Christian, Bishop of Lismore,.. Pope Eugenius, a venerable man, with whom he was in the Probatorie at Clarevall, who also ordained him to be the Legate in Ireland, departed to Christ. Holland , tr. of Camden, II. 151. ( Davies .) probatum est (prō-bā'tum est). [L.: probatum , neut. of probatus , pp. of probare , test, examine; est , 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of e e , be.] It has been tried or proved: often appended to recipes or prescriptions. tion with a discu ion of it. Although in general one understood colours, yet were it not an easy problem to resolve why gra is green. Sir T. Browne . The Conclusion is the Problem (problem a), question (quæstio, quæsitio), which was originally asked, stated now as a decision. The Problem is usually omitted in the ex pre ion of a syllogism, but is one of its e ential parts. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, xv. Few researches can be conducted in any one line of inquiry without sooner or later abutting on some metaphysical problem , were it only that of Force, Matter, or Cause. G. H. Lewes , Probs. of Life and Mind, I. i. § 8. Specifically-2. In geom., a proposition requiring some operation to be performed or construction to be executed, as to bisect a line, and the like. It differs from a theorem in that the latter requires something to be proved, a relation or identity to be shown or established. The Greek word is used in this sense by Pappus, in the third century after Christ. of intuition but that of our senses, or of any kind of con- cepts but of our categories, neither of them being appli- to any extra sensuous object. Kant , Critique of Pure Reason (tr. by Müller), iii. Problematic proposition. See proposition . problematical (prob-le-mat'i-kal), a . lematic + -al .] Same as problematic . Wagers are laid in the city about our succe , which is yet, as the French call it, problematical . Johnson, to Mrs. Thrale, Nov. 1, 1777. problematically (prob-le-mat'i-kal-i), adv . [ problematical +-ly2.] In a problematic man- ner; doubtfully; dubiously; uncertainly. problem at ist (problem-a-tist), n. βλημα(-), a problem, + -ist .] One who poses problems. [Rare.] This learned problem at ist . IMG:content-1007.png:[ocr errors] proboscidiferous (pro-bos-i-dif'e-rus), a . cis, + ferre = E. bear1 .] 1. Having a probos- NL. NL. proboscidifer , proboscidifer , . proboscis ( -cid- ), probos- cis.-2. In conch ., pertaining to the Probosci- difera . The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia problematize (problem-a-tīz), v. i.; pret. and pp. problem at i zed , ppr. problem at i zing . [ -ize .] To propose Tip . Hear him problematize . Pru . Ble us, what's that? pro bono publico (pro bōnō pub'li-kō). [L.: pro , for; bono , abl. of bonum , good; publico , abl. of public us , public: see pro , bona , public .] For the public good. Proboscidæ (pro-bos'i-dē), n . pl . [NL., for * Proboscidida, προβοσκίς ( -κιδ- ), proboscis, + -idæ.] The family of the elephants: now called Elephantidæ . proboscidal (pro-bos'i-dal), a . [L. proboscis ( -cid- ), -al .] Same as pro bos cid i form . proboscidate (pro-bos'i-dāt), a . [L. proboscis ( -cid- ), προβοσκίς ( -κιδ- ), proboscis, + -ate1 .] Having a proboscis; proboscidean. Probosci- date insect, an insect having a proboscidate mouth.- Proboscidate mouth, in entom ., a haustellate mouth; a mouth in which the organs are modified to form a probos- cis, as in most flies. See cut under house -fly. proboscide (prō-bos'id), pro-bos id), n. [ proboscide , proboscis , proboscis: see proboscis .] In her ., the trunk of an elephant used as a bear- ing or part of a bearing. Proboscidea (pro-bo-sid'ē-ä), n . pl . [NL. (Illi- ger, 1811), proboscis ( -cid- ), -κιδ- ), proboscis: see proboscis .] 1. An order of Mammal i a having a long or trunk. It now contains only the elephants and their allies, as the mammoths and mastodons. The legs are mostly exserted beyond the common integument of the trunk, and all their joints are extensible in a right line. The teeth are enameled; the incisors are in the living elephants two above and none below, in some ex- tinct Proboscidea none above and two below, or two above and below, any of which may be developed into long tusks curving out of the mouth. The feet are all five-toed, so far as is known, incased in broad shallow hoofs, one to each digit, and the palmar and plantar surfaces are padded. The carpal bones are broad and short, in two separate, not interlocking, rows; the scaphoid and lunar are separate from each other; the cuneiform is broad, extended inward, and attached to the ulna; the unciform is directly in front of the cuneiform, and the magnum in front of the lunar; in the hind foot the as- tragal us articulates in front only with the navicular. The placenta is deciduate, zonary. The Proboscidea belong to the higher or educabilian series of placental mammals. Their nearest living relatives are the Hyracoidea . There are 2 families- Elephantidæ , containing the elephants, mammoths, and mastodons, and Dinotheriidæ , the dino- theres, the latter all extinct, the former now represented by only 2 living species. See cuts under Dinotherium , elephant , Elephant inæ , and Mastodont inæ . 2. A cla of corticate protozoans, also called Rhynchoflagellata , represented by the noctilu- cans. E. R. Lankester . Probosciger (pro-bos'i-jer), n . [NL. (Kuhl, 1820 ), proboscis , proboscis, + gerere , carry.] A genus of black cockatoos: synonymous with Micro glo a. proboscigerous (pro-bo-sij'e-rus), a. [L. pro- boscis , proboscis, + gerere , carry.] Having a proboscis; proboscidiferous. To make them mirth, used all his might, and wreathed His lithe proboscis . Milton , P. L., iv. 347. 2. Any pro bos cid i form part or organ; anything that sticks out in front of an animal like an ele- phant's trunk. See cut under Cystophorinæ . (a) The human nose, especially when very large. [Humorous.] (b) In entom .: (1) The rostrum or beak of a rhynchoph- orous beetle, or snout-beetle. (2) The long coiled haus- tellate organ of lepidopterous insects; an antlia. See cut under haustellum . (3) The sucking-mouth of a fly, a cylin- drical membranous or fleshy organ terminating in a dilated portion which is applied to the substance to be sucked up. (See promuscis , and cut under house -fly.) (4) The extensi- ble mouth-organs of a bee, consisting of the labium and lingua with their various divisions, and the maxillæ, united at their bases with the labium. (c) In Vermes , a divers i- form buccal, oral, or pharyngeal organ of many worms, as errant annelids, gephyreans, turbellarians, and nemer- teans. In the last the proboscis is a tubular invaginated eversible organ opening in the anterior part of the body above the mouth, formed by a differentiation of the in- tegument; it is variable in details of structure: it may be divided, coiled, glandulous, and furnished with stylets, a retractor muscle, etc. (For various proboscides of this kind, see cuts under Acanthocephala , Bal a no glo us , Ces- toides , Nereis , Proctucha , Rhabdocæla , and Rhynchocæla .) (d) In conch ., the tongue of certain gastropods, such as shell-snails, when it is so long as to be capable of being protruded for some distance from the mouth, in which case it is used for boring the shells of other testaceans, and for destroying by suction the soft parts of the in- habitant: distinguished from rostrum . (e) In polyps, the central polypite of a medusan. (f) In gregarines, the epimerite. [ n . semnopithecine ape, Nasalis larvatus ; a ka- hau: so called from the elongated and flexible snout, which resembles the human nose in size and shape. See cut under Nasalis . proboscis-rat (prō-bos'is-rat), n . Same as ele- phant-shrew. proboscidean (prō-bo-sid'ē-an), a . and n. L. proboscis (-cid-), προβοσκίς ( -κιδ- ), pro- boscis, + -e- an .] I. a. 1. Having a proboscis or trunk; proboscidate or proboscidiferous; belonging to the mammalian order Probo- scidea .-2. Of or pertaining to a proboscis: as, "the proboscidean sheath of the Nemertines," Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 184. Also proboscidial , proboscoid . Proboscidean flukes, the trematoids of the family Te- proboscideous (pro-bo-sid'ē-us), a . [ pro- boscis ( -cid- ), bot ., having a hard terminal horn, as the fruit of Martynia. Treasury of Botany. proboscides, Latin plural of proboscis . proboscidial (pro-bo-sid'i-al), a. [L. probos- of which we can neither say that it is po ible nor that it cis ( -cid- ), -κιδ- ), proboscis, + is impo ible, because we have no conception of any kind -ial .] Same as proboscidean . IMG:content-1009.png:[blocks in formation] procacious procacious (prō-kā'shus), a. [=OF. procace = It. procace, I confe these [personal comeline and beauty] are commonly but the temptations of women and procacious youth. Baxter , Self-Denial, xliv. Now abating a procacious youth, now heartening a shy homely one. Dr. J. Brown , Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 297. procacity (prō-kas'i-ti), n . [= OF. proc a cite = Sp. procacidad = Pg. procacidade = It. proc a cità , procacita ( t- )s, forwardne , impudence, procax ( -ac- ), forward, bold: see proc a cio us .] Impudence; petulance. In vaine are all your knaveries, Delights, deceipts, procacities . Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 541. procambial (pro-kam'bi-al), a. [ A procambial bundle being first formed. Encyc. Brit., IV. 105. [NL., L.