different between approver vs probator

English

Etymology

approve +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?u?v?(?)/

Noun

approver (plural approvers)

1. One who approves or gives approval.
   • 1680, John Bunyan, Life and Death of Mr. Badman

     Therefore, as when men wickedly swear they rend and tear God's name, and make him, as much as in them lies, the avoucher and approver of all their wickedness […]

2. (dated, law) In English common law, a person who accuses a confederate; one who commits approvement.

Derived terms

• turning approver

Translations

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

probator (plural probators)

1. An examiner; an approver.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Maydman to this entry?)

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

Anagrams

• pro-abort, proabort

Latin

Etymology 1

From prob?.

Noun

prob?tor m (genitive prob?t?ris); third declension

1. approver
2. examiner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• prob?t?ria

Etymology 2

Verb

prob?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of prob?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of prob?

References

• 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