(v. t.) To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or
standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of
ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
(v. t.) To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or
fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
(v. t.) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of;
to verify; as, to prove a will.
(v. t.) To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by
trial; to experience; to suffer.
(v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness
of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference
between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to
the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
(v. t.) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to
prove a page.
(v. i.) To make trial; to essay.
(v. i.) To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out
to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
(v. i.) To succeed; to turn out as expected.
