Bible Encyclopedias
Probationer

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is, in the Church of Scotland, a student in divinity, who, bringing a certificate from a professor in a university of his good morals, and his having performed his exercises to approbation, is admitted to undergo several trials before the presbytery, and upon his acquitting himself properly in these, receives a license to preach. (See PROBATION).