APPROBATING

Verb

approbating

present 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Note: This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep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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