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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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
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
Aceldama A place with dreadful associations. animadversion Strong criticism. approbate Sanction officially; authorize. arbitrament Arbitrating; arbitration.
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
This is so congenial with the constitution of our own state, that I need not advance any argument to induce the free citizens of Massachusetts to approbate it.
From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Paul Leicester Ford
He was "approbated" by the Ministers' Association in 1826.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
“But,” says one, “the traffic in ardent spirit is a lawful business; it is approbated by law, and is therefore right.”
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
The students used to speak of having their performances approbated by the instructors.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
His course at the Divinity School in Cambridge was much broken; nevertheless, in October, 1826, he was "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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