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Definition of Provers
1. prover [n] - See also: prover
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provers
Literary usage of Provers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy by American Institute of Homeopathy Session (1895)
"Dr. Woodward: I understand that Dr. Millie J. Chapman has a number of drug provings
which have been made by a society of women provers. ..."
2. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1844)
"Rovère,í Monestier, Panis, &c., all either friends of Danton's or disap- provers
of the system followed by the government. ..."
3. Hand Book of Natural Gas by Henry Palmer Westcott (1920)
"Standard Meter provers— The meter prover is ... All meter provers should be
calibrated by means of a cubic foot bottle which has been standardized by the ..."
4. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1852)
"... and I consider them preferable in almost every provers of Devon stock. He is
a bull of superior points —one of the best of the breed we have ever seen. ..."
5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1850)
"... investigators and provers, the men who think that nothing is really established
until it has been proved, that is, deduced from something else, ..."
6. Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy by James Tyler Kent (1900)
"For instance, take that symptom of Apis, "suffocation in a warm room"; all the
provers of Apis, or nearly all, were affected to a great extent in that way. ..."
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