APPROBATED
Verb
approbated
simple past tense and past participle of approbate
Source: Wiktionary
APPROBATE
Ap"pro*bate, a. Etym: [L. approbatus, p. p. of approbare to approve.]
Definition: Approved. [Obs.] Elyot.
Ap"pro*bate, v. t.
Definition: 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Note: This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep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).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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