1. (n.) The process of legally establishing, or proving, the validity of a will\.

2. (n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved.

3. (n.) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.

4. (a.) of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.

5. (v. t.) To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.

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