单词 | improbative |
释义 | improbative, a.|ɪmˈprɒbətɪv| [f. L. improbāt-, ppl. stem of improbāre improbate v. + -ive.] 1. Liable to improbation or disproof; not proved to be true or genuine.
1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 517 Where witnesses attest a deed without knowing the granter, and seeing him subscribe..the deed is not only improbative, but such witnesses are declared accessory to forgery. 1866Guide to Elgin Cathedral iv. 226 Some respect ought to be paid to universal tradition however improbative. 2. = improbatory.
1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 44 ‘The form or mode of treatment’, he [Dante] says, ‘is..definitive, divisive, probative, improbative, and positive of examples’. |

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