comprobation

noun — 2 senses

comprobation

noun

Etymology Latin comprobatio.

1

Obsolete joint attestation; proof

Thus in law both Civill and Divine, that is only esteemed a legall testimony, which receives comprobation from the mouths of at least two witnesses;1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

2

Obsolete approbation

the comprobation of the beſt and most famous learned men1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

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