Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Approbate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Approbate \Ap"pro*bate\, a. [L. approbatus, p. p. of approbare
to approve.]
Approved. [Obs.] --Elyot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Approbate \Ap"pro*bate\, v. t.
To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction
officially.
I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
Note: This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally
heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical
sense for license; as, a person is approbated to
preach; approbated to keep a public house. --Pickering
(1816).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
approbate
v 1: approve or sanction officially
2: accept as valid, as of documents [ant: {reprobate}]
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