Ap"pro*bate (#), a. [L. approbatus, p. p. of approbare to approve.]
Approved.
[Obs.]
Elyot.
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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.
⇒ This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep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).
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