comprover (c.1136-65)
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comprover (c.1136-65)

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  FEW:  probare 9,407a Gdf:  comprover 2,214c GdfC: ∅ TL: comprover 2,640 DEAF:  prover (comprover)  DMF:  comprouver  TLF: ∅ OED:  conprove.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  comprobare 412a
conprover,  cumpruver  

v.a.

1to prove: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  pure predication […]; Confermee ert de Dampnedé E comprovee a verité  9052
( c.1270; MS: c.1270-75 )  si sunt il conprovez nundreitureus pur le trespassement de la ley  869
2to confute, silence: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Pur cumpruver le e cumfundre  4584
♦to refute, disprove: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Lur cause est laide e replenie De fauseté e vilainie, Pur ceo ne poet aver duree Que tuz tens ne seit cumpruvee  11546
comprovaille  prover#1 
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