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Comprobate
Definitions
- 1 Comprobated. obsolete
- 1 To agree; to concur. obsolete
"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."
Etymology
First attested in 1523; borrowed from Latin comprobātus, perfect passive participle of comprobō (“to approve wholly”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
First attested in 1523; borrowed from Latin comprobātus, perfect passive participle of comprobō (“to approve wholly”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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