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.

The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.

Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a
probate record.

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.