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Webster 1913 Edition

Probationary

Pro-ba′tion-a-ry

,

Adj.

Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.

To consider this life . . . as a

probationary

state.

Paley.

Webster 1828 Edition

Probationary

PROBA'TIONARY

,

Adj.

Serving for trial.

All the probationary work of man is ended when death arrives.