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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.

To consider this life . . . as a

probationary

state.

Paley.

Adj.

Serving for trial.

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

probationary ‎(comparative more probationary, superlative most probationary)

probationary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
probationary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911