approbate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Scots law to accept as valid
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Scots law to accept part of a document and reject those parts unfavourable to one's interests
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to sanction officially
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of approbate
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin approbātus approved (past participle of approbāre ), equivalent to ap- ap- 1 + probātus proved; see probate
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While throughout the world you rove, Thus uphold your banners; Give these reasons why you prove Hearts of men and manners: "To reprove the reprobate, Probity approving, Improbate from approbate To remove, I'm moving."
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds
How often does the professor whose duty it is to criticise and approbate the pieces for this exhibition wish they were better!
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
I approbate domestic factories, but nothin' further for us.
From The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Not that he would approbate the system of slavery; for he was, and in fact had been through life, its most determined foe.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
Alan?' said my father—'Would you approbate and reprobate, sir?
From Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
He was accordingly "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers on October 10, 1826.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
"I guess that 'ere chap has cut his eye-teeth," said the President; "let him pass as approbated."
From The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
In 1826, after three years' study, he was "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Observe their faces as they enter, and you will perceive some shades there, which, if they are approbated and admitted, will be gone when they come out.—Scenes and Characters in College, New Haven, 1847, p.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
I was approbated by the Boston Association, I suspect, as a person well known, but known as an anomaly, and admitted in charity.—Memorial of John S. Popkin, D.D., p. lxxxv.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
From involuntary comparison of the representative feeling of the spectator with its original in the person observed arises an agreeable or disagreeable feeling of judgment, a judgment of value, approbating or rejecting the latter.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
The intrepid and energetic officer who had planned and executed this scheme of western exploration gave me a copy of his official letter to the Secretary of War, warmly approbating the conduct of Capt.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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