approbate
verbEtymology Borrowed from Latin approbatus. Doublet of approve.
1
To give official sanction, consent or authorization to.
- Derived terms
- approbate and reprobate
approbate
adjEtymology Borrowed from Latin approbatus. Doublet of approve.
1
Approved.
- And if they wyll allege that all thynge contayned in holy scripture is approbate by the hole consent of all the clergie of Christendoms […]1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named The Governour: