Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 123
Privateered (imp. & p. p.) of
Privateer
Privateering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Privateer
Privateer (v. i.) 私掠巡航 To cruise in a privateer.
Privateer (n.) An officer or crew member of a privateer [syn: privateer, privateersman].
Privateer (n.) A privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation.
Privateering (n.) 以私掠船巡邏；擄獲商船 Cruising in a privateer.
Privateersmen (n. pl. ) of Privateersman
Privateersman (n.) 私掠船船員 An officer or seaman of a privateer.
Privately (adv.) 私下地；不公開地 In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others.
Privately (adv.) In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
Privately (adv.) Kept private or confined to those intimately concerned; "it was discussed privately between the two men"; "privately, she thought differently"; "some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat"; "he was questioned in private" [syn: privately, in private, in camera] [ant: in public, publically, publicly].
Privately (adv.) By a private person or interest; "a privately financed campaign" [ant: publicly].
Privateness (n.) 世故性；隱私；私人性 Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy. -- Bacon.
Privateness (n.) The state of one not invested with public office.
Privateness (n.) The condition of being concealed or hidden [syn: privacy, privateness, secrecy, concealment].
Privateness (n.) The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others [syn: privacy, privateness, seclusion].
Privation (n.) 喪失；缺乏；貧困，困苦 [C] [U]；（被）剝奪 [U] The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. -- Bacon.
Privation (n.) The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
Privation (n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. -- South.
Privation mere of light and absent day. -- Milton.
Privation (n.) A state of extreme poverty [syn: {privation}, {want}, {deprivation}, {neediness}].
Privation (n.) Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [syn: {privation}, {deprivation}].
Privative (a.) 引致匱乏的 Causing privation; depriving.
Privative (a.) Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity. -- Jer. Taylor.
Privative (a.) 【文】改變肯定詞為否定的 (Gram.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. ?), un-, non-, -less.
Privative (n.) That of which the essence is the absence of something.
Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives. -- Bacon.
Privative (n.) (Logic) A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also {privative term}.
Privative (n.) 【文】否定之字尾或字首 (Gram.) A privative prefix or suffix. See {Privative}, a., 3.
Privatively (adv.) In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively. [R.] -- Hammond.
Privativeness (n.) The state of being privative.
Privet (n.) 【植】水蠟樹；任何類似水蠟樹之樹；女貞 An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also {prim}.
{Egyptian privet}. See {Lawsonia}.
{Evergreen privet}, A plant of the genus {Rhamnus}. See {Alatern}.
{Mock privet}, Any one of several evergreen shrubs of the genus {Phillyrea}. They are from the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies.
Privet (n.) Any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges
Privilege (n.) 特權，特別恩典，基本人權，特免 A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman. -- Kettlewell.
The privilege birthright was a double portion. -- Locke.
A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties. -- Burke.
Privilege (n.) (Stockbroker’s Cant) See {Call}, {Put}, {Spread}, etc.
{Breach of privilege}. See under {Breach}.
{Question of privilege} (Parliamentary practice), A question which concerns the security of a member of a legislative body in his special privileges as such.
{Water privilege}, The advantage of having machinery driven by a stream, or a place affording such advantage. [ U. S.]
{Writ of privilege} (Law), A writ to deliver a privileged person from custody when arrested in a civil suit. -- Blackstone.
Syn: Prerogative; immunity; franchise; right; claim; liberty.
Usage: {Privilege}, {Prerogative}. Privilege, among the Romans, was something conferred upon an individual by a private law; and hence, it denotes some peculiar benefit or advantage, some right or immunity, not enjoyed by the world at large. Prerogative, among the Romans, was the right of voting first; and, hence, it denotes a right of precedence, or of doing certain acts, or enjoying certain privileges, to the exclusion of others. It is the privilege of a member of Congress not to be called in question elsewhere for words uttered in debate. It is the prerogative of the president to nominate judges and executive officers. It is the privilege of a Christian child to be instructed in the true religion. It is the prerogative of a parent to govern and direct his children.
Privileged (imp. & p. p.) of Privilege
Privileging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Privilege
Privilege (v. t.) 給與…特權，特免 To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
To privilege dishonor in thy name. -- Shak.
Privilege (v. t.) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
He took this place for sanctuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands. -- Shak.
Privilege (n.) A special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all.
Privilege (n.) A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" [syn: {prerogative}, {privilege}, {perquisite}, {exclusive right}].
Privilege (n.) (Law) The right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship.
Privilege (v.) Bestow a privilege upon [syn: {privilege}, {favor}, {favour}].
Privilege (n.), Mar. law. An allowance to the master of a ship of the general nature with primage, (q.v.) being compensation or rather a gratuity customary in certain trades, and which the law assumes to be a fair and equitable allowance, because the contract on both sides is made under the knowledge such usage by the parties. 3 Chit. Com. Law, 431.
Privilege (n.), Rights. This word, taken its active sense, is a particular law, or a particular disposition of the law, which grants certain special prerogatives to some persons, contrary to common right. In its passive sense, it is the same prerogative granted by the same particular law.
Privilege (n.) Examples of privilege may be found in all systems of law; members of congress and of the several legislatures, during a certain time, parties and witnesses while attending court; and coming to and returning from the same; electors, while going to the election, remaining on the ground, or returning from the same, are all privileged from arrest, except for treason, felony or breach of the peace.
Privilege (n.) Privileges from arrest for civil cases are either general and absolute, or limited and qualified as to time or place.
Privilege (n.) In the first class may be mentioned ambassadors, and their servants, when the debt or duty has been contracted by the latter since they entered into the service of such ambassador; insolvent debtors duly discharged under the insolvent laws; in some places, as in Pennsylvania, women for any debt by them contracted; and in general, executors and administrators, when sued in their representative character, though they have been held to bail. 2 Binn. 440.
Privilege (n.) In the latter class may be placed, 1st. Members of congress this privilege is strictly personal, and is not only his own, or that of his constituent, but also that of the house of which he is a member, which every man is bound to know, and must take notice of. Jeff. Man. Sec. 3; 2 Wils. R. 151; Com. Dig. Parliament, D. 17. The time during which the privilege extends includes all the period of the session of congress, and a reasonable time for going to, and returning from the seat of government. Jeff. Man. Sec. 3; Story, Const. Sec. 856 to 862; 1 Kent, Com. 221; 1 Dall. R. 296. The same privilege is extended to the members of the different state legislatures.
Privilege (n.) Electors under the constitution and laws of the United States, or of any state, are protected from arrest for any civil cause, or for any crime except treason, felony, or a breach of the peace, eundo, morando, et redeundo, that is, going to, staying at, or returning from the election.
Privilege (n.) Militia men, while engaged in the performance of military duty, under the laws, and eundo, morando et redeundo.
Privilege (n.) All persons who, either necessarily or of right are attending any court or forum of justice, whether as judge, juror, party interested or witness, and eundo, morando et redeundo. See 6 Mass. R, 245; 4 Dall. R. 329, 487; 2 John. R. 294; 1 South. R. 366; 11 Mass. R. 11; 3 Cowen, R. 381; 1 Pet. C. C. R. 41.
Privilege (n.) Ambassadors are wholly exempt from arrest for civil or criminal cases.
Vide Ambassador. See, generally, Bac. Ab. h.t.; 2 Rolle's Ab. 272; 2 Lilly's Reg. 369; Brownl. 15; 13 Mass. R. 288; 1 Binn. R. 77; 1 H. Bl. 686; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Privilege (n.), Civil law. A right which the nature of a debt gives to a creditor, and which entitles him to be preferred before other creditors. Louis. Code, art. 3153; Dict. de Juris. art. Privilege: Domat, Lois Civ. liv. 2, t. 1, s. 4, n. 1.
Privilege (n.) Creditors of the same rank of privileges, are paid in concurrence, that is, on an equal footing. Privileges may exist either in movables, or immovables, or both at once. They are general or special, on certain movables. The debts which are privileged on all the movables in general, are the following, which are paid in this order. 1. Funeral charges. 2. Law charges, which are such as are occasioned by the prosecution of a suit before the courts. But this name applies more particularly to costs, which the party cast has to pay to the party gaining the cause. It is in favor of these only that the law grants the privilege. 3. Charges, of whatever nature, occasioned by the last sickness, concurrently among those to whom they are due; see Last sickness. 4. The wages of servants for the year past, and so much as is due for the current year. 5. Supplies of provisions made to the debtor or his family during the last six months, by retail dealers, such as bakers, butchers, grocers; and during the last year by keepers of boarding houses and taverns. 6. The salaries of clerks, secretaries, and other persons of that kind. 7. Dotal rights, due to wives by their husbands.
Privilege (n.) The debts which are privileged on particular movables, are, 1. The debt of a workman or artisan for the price of his labor, on the movable which he has repaired, or made, if the thing continues still in his possession. 2. That debt on the pledge which is in the creditor's possession. 3. The carrier's charges and accessory expenses on the thing carried. 4. The price due on movable effects, if they are yet in the possession of the purchaser; and the like. See Lien.
Privilege (n.) Creditors have a privilege on immovables, or real estate in some, cases, of which the following are instances: 1. The vendor on the estate by him sold, for the payment of the price, or so much of it as is due whether it be sold on or without a credit. 2. Architects and undertakers, bricklayers and other workmen employed in constructing, rebuilding or repairing houses, buildings, or making other works on such houses, buildings, or works by them constructed, rebuilt or repaired. 3. Those who have supplied the owner with materials for the construction or repair of an edifice or other work, which he has erected or repaired out of these materials, on the edifice or other work constructed or repaired. Louis. Code, art. 3216. See, generally, as to privilege. Louis. Code, tit. 21; Code Civ. tit. 18; Dict. de Juris. tit. Privilege; Lien; Last sickness; Preference.
Privileged (a.) 享有特權的；特許的；幸運的；【海】（船）有通航權的；privilege 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.
{Privileged communication}. (Law) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers.
{Privileged communication}. (Law) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc.
{Privileged debts} (Law), Those to which a preference in payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent. -- Wharton. -- Burrill.
{Privileged witnesses} (Law) Witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.
Privileged (a.) Blessed with privileges; "the privileged few" [ant: {underprivileged}].
Privileged (a.) Not subject to usual rules or penalties; "a privileged statement".
Privileged (a.) Confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information" [syn: {inside}, {inner}, {privileged}].
Privily (adv.) 暗中；祕密地 In a privy manner; privately; secretly. -- Chaucer. -- 2 Pet. ii. 1.
Privily (adv.) Confidentially or in secret; "told her friend privily that she was planning to be married".
Privities (n. pl. ) of Privity
Privity (n.) 共同祕密；【律】非當事人權益關係；共同利益關係 Privacy; secrecy; confidence. -- Chaucer.
I will unto you, in privity, discover . . . my purpose. -- Spenser.
Privity (n.) Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.
All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the Prince of Orange. -- Swift.
Privity (n.) A private matter or business; a secret.
Privity (n.) pl. The genitals; the privates.
Privity (n.) (Law) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.
Privy (a.) 個人的，私人的 [B]；【古】隱蔽的，祕密的 [B]；私下的，不公開的 Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. " Privee knights and squires." -- Chaucer.
Privy (a.) Secret; clandestine. " A privee thief." -- Chaucer.
Privy (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. " Privy chambers." -- Ezek. xxi. 14.
Privy (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
His wife also being privy to it. -- Acts v. 2.
Myself am one made privy to the plot. -- Shak.
{Privy chamber}, A private apartment in a royal residence. [Eng.]
{Privy council} (Eng. Law), The principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen. -- Burrill.
{Privy councilor}, A member of the privy council.
{Privy purse}, Moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys. [Eng.] -- Macaulay.
{Privy seal} or {Privy signet}, The seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which he uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal. [Eng.]
{Privy verdict}, A verdict given privily to the judge out of court; -- now disused. -- Burrill.
Privies (n. pl. ) of Privy
Privy (n.) (Law) [C]【律】有利害關係的人；廁所 A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party. -- Burrill. -- Wharton.
Privy (n.) A necessary house or place for performing excretory functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse.
Privy (a.) Hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden" [syn: {privy}, {secluded}, {secret}].
Privy (a.) (Followed by `to') Informed about something secret or not generally known; "privy to the details of the conspiracy".
Privy (n.) A room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: {toilet}, {lavatory}, {lav}, {can}, {john}, {privy}, {bathroom}].
Privy (n.) A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate [syn: {outhouse}, {privy}, {earth-closet}, {jakes}].
Privy (n.) One who is a partaker, or has an interest in any action, matter or thing.
Prizable (a.) Valuable.
Prize (n.) [C] 獎賞；獎品；獎金 [（+for）]；（值得）競爭的目標，極有價值的東西 That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
Prize (n.) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
Prize (n.) An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
Prize (n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
Prize (n.) Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
Prize (n.) A contest for a reward; competition.
Prize (n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
Prize (v. t.) 重視，珍視；估價，評價 To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
Prized (imp. & p. p.) of Prize
Prizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prize
Prize (v. t.) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
Prize (v. t.) To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
Prize (n.) Estimation; valuation.
Prizemen (n. pl. ) of Prizeman
Prizeman (n.) 得獎人 The winner of a prize.
Prizer (n.) One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser.
Prizer (n.) One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger.
Prizing (n.) The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.
Pro- () A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.
Pro (a.) A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.
Pro (adv.) For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con.
Proa (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.
Proach (v. i.) See Approach.
Proactive (a.) 【心】前攝的；（人、政策、行為等）主動的；先發制人的 Descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently; "proactive inhibition"; "proactive interference" [ant: {retroactive}].
Proactive (a.) (of a policy or person or action) Controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens.
Proatlas (n.) A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.
Probabiliorism (n.) The doctrine of the probabiliorists.
Probabiliorist (n.) One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.
Probabilism (n.) The doctrine of the probabilists.
Probabilist (n.) One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.
Probabilist (n.) One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable.
Probabilities (n. pl. ) of Probability
Probability (n.) 可能性，或然性 [U] [S1] [（+of）] [+that]；或有的事；可能的結果 [C]；【數】概率，或然率，機率 [U] The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.
Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so. -- Locke.
Probability (n.) That which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth.
The whole life of man is a perpetual comparison of evidence and balancing of probabilities. -- Buckminster.
We do not call for evidence till antecedent probabilities fail. -- J. H. Newman.
Probability (n.) (Math.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5.
Syn: Likeliness; credibleness; likelihood; chance.
Probability (n.) A measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; "the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5" [syn: probability, chance].
Probability (n.) The quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event; "for a while mutiny seemed a probability"; "going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost" [ant: improbability, improbableness].
Probable (a.) 很可能發生的；很可能成為事實的；很有希望的 [+that]；有充分根據（但未經證實）的；可信的 Capable of being proved. [Obs.]
Probable (a.) Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely.
That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it. -- South.
I do not say that the principles of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Probable (a.) Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption. -- Blackstone.
Probable cause (Law), A reasonable ground of presumption that a charge is, or my be, well founded.
Probable error (of an observation, or of the mean of a number), That within which, taken positively and negatively, there is an even chance that the real error shall lie. Thus, if 3[sec] is the probable error in a given case, the chances that the real error is greater than 3[sec] are equal to the chances that it is less. The probable error is computed from the observations made, and is used to express their degree of accuracy.
The probable, that which is within the bounds of probability; that which is not unnatural or preternatural; -- opposed to the marvelous.
Probable (a.) Likely but not certain to be or become true or real; "a likely result"; "he foresaw a probable loss" [syn: probable, likely] [ant: improbable, unlikely].
Probable (a.) Apparently destined; "the probable consequences of going ahead with the scheme".
Probable (n.) An applicant likely to be chosen.
PROBABLE, () That which has the appearance of truth; that which appears to be founded in reason.
Probably (adv.) In a probable manner; in likelihood.
Distinguish between what may possibly and what will probably be done. -- L'Estrange.
Probably (adv.) With considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war" [syn: probably, likely, in all likelihood, in all probability, belike].
Probably (adv.) Easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election" [syn: credibly, believably, plausibly, probably] [ant: implausibly, improbably, incredibly, unbelievably].
Probacy (n.) Proof; trial. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Probal (a.) Approved; probable. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Probality (n.) Probability. [Obs.] "With as great probality." -- Holland.
Probang (n.) 【醫】食管探子；捕鯢器 A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.
Probate (n.) 遺囑的認證 [U]；經認證的遺囑 [C]；【美】遺囑認證法院管轄範圍內的一切事項 Proof. [Obs.] -- Skelton.
Probate (n.) (Law) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved.
Probate (n.) (Law) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.
Probate (a.) 遺囑認證的；遺囑認證法庭的 Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.
{Probate Court}, or {Court of Probate}, A court for the probate of wills.
{Probate duty}, A government tax on property passing by will. [Eng.]
Probate (v. t.) [法] 遺囑認證； 處以緩刑； 加以監護； 在遺囑認證法庭證明…精神失常 To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.
Probate (n.) A judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate [syn: {probate}, {probate will}].
Probate (n.) The act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements.
Probate (v.) Put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence.
Probate (v.) Establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents).
Probation (n.) [U] 檢驗；鑑定；試用；見習；試讀；試用期；見習期；試讀期；【律】緩刑 The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. [Obs.]
When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. -- Jer. Taylor.
Probation (n.) Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a person on probation.
Probation (n.) The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule.
Probation (n.) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor.
Probation (n.) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state.
No [view of human life] seems so reasonable as that which regards it as a state of probation. -- Paley.
Probation (n.) A trial period during which your character and abilities are tested to see whether you are suitable for work or for membership.
Probation (n.) A trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself.
Probation (n.) (Law) A way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them; a defendant found guilty of a crime is released by the court without imprisonment subject to conditions imposed by the court; "probation is part of the sentencing process".
Probation (n.) The evidence which proves a thing. It is either by record, writing, the party's own oath, or the testimony of witnesses. Proof. (q.v.) It also signifies the time of a novitiate; a trial. Nov. 5.
Probational (a.) Probationary.
Probationary (a.) 試用的；實習中的；緩刑中的 Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.
To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. -- Paley.
Probationary (a.) Under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule" [syn: probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative].
Probationer (n.) 試用人員；實習生；緩刑中的犯人 One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.
While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. -- Dryden.
Probationer (n.) A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach.
Probationer (n.) A nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period [syn: {probationer}, {student nurse}].
Probationer (n.) Someone released on probation or on parole [syn: {probationer}, {parolee}].
Probationership (n.) 試用期間；緩刑期間 The state of being a probationer; novitiate. -- Locke.