comprobate

English

Etymology

Latin comprobatus, past participle of comprobare (“to approve wholly”).

Verb

comprobate (third-person singular simple present comprobates, present participle comprobating, simple past and past participle comprobated)

1. (obsolete) To agree; to concur.
   • 1528 March 16, Thomas More, More to Wolsey [Letter], Windsor; published in His Majesty's State Paper Office, State Papers Published Under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission‎^[1], volume 1, London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1830, King Henry the Eighth, part 1: Correspondence between the King and Cardinal Wolsey (1518–1530), letter 140, page 286:

     Ferthermore, His Highnes desireth Your Grace, at such tyme as ye shall call the Spanyardes by fore you, to geve theym libertie to departe, hit may lyke you, in such effectuall wise to declare un to theym, what favour His Highnes bereth to the nation of Spayne and how lothe His Grace wold have ben to have eny warre with theym; that thopinion of his graciouse favour toward theym, comprobate and corroborate by theire discharge, and franke deliveraunce, being by theym reported in Spayne, may move the nobles, and the peple there, to take the more grevousely toward thEymperour, that his unresonable hardenes shold be the cause and occasion of the warre.

   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, chapter 22, in The Boke named the Governour, volume 3:

     Whiche wonderfull sentence, as me seemeth, may wel accorde with our catholike faythe, and be receyued into the commentaryes of the moste perfecte dyuines. For as well that sentence, as al other before rehersed, doo comprobate with holy Scrip­ture, that god is the fountain of Sapience, lyke as he is the souerayne begynnyng of all generation.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:agree

Related terms

• comprobation

Anagrams

• amboceptor

Latin

Verb

comprobāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of comprobō

Spanish

Verb

comprobate

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