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
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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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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
The Stadtholder was too wary a politician to approbate immediately so sweeping a proposal, and referred it to the States-General.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
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
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
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
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
No trait of the American scientific character has been more uniformly and highly approbated, by the foreign journals of England, France, and Germany, than its capacity to accumulate, discriminate, and describe facts.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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
"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
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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