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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which proves or tries.
  • noun A skilled workman employed to strike off proofs from engraved plates.
  • noun In homeopathic medicine, one who submits himself to experimentation in order to determine the therapeutic indications for a drug. See prove, v. t., 7.
  • noun In old English law, one who gives state's evidence; an approver or probator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, proves.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person, device, or program that performs logical or mathematical proofs

Etymologies

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to prove + -er

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  • "2. A skilled workman employed to strike off proofs from engraved plates." --Cent. Dict.

    April 22, 2011