probator

From Latin probātor.

probator (plural probators)

1. An examiner; an approver.
   • 1691, Henry Maydman, Naval Speculations, AND Maritime Politicks: Being a Modest and Brief DISCOURSE OF THE Royal Navy OF ENGLAND: OF Its Oeconomy and Government, AND A Projection for an everlasting Seminary of Seamen, by a Royal Maritime Hospital.:

     Warranted Officers, that are reckoned ancient experienced Men of the same Employments, some nominated, and appointed for Probators, as well as all from the Captains and Commissioners

2. (law, UK, obsolete) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.

• “probator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• pro-abort, proabort

From probō + -tor.

probātor m (genitive probātōris); third declension

1. approver
2. examiner

Third-declension noun.

• probātōria

probātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of probō

• “probator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “probator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “probator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French probatoire.

probator m or n (feminine singular probatoare, masculine plural probatori, feminine/neuter plural probatoare)

1. probationary