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Dictionary Results for Approbate:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
approbate
    v 1: approve or sanction officially
    2: accept (documents) as valid [ant: reprobate]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Approbate \Ap"pro*bate\, a. [L. approbatus, p. p. of approbare
   to approve.]
   Approved. [Obs.] --Elyot.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Approbate \Ap"pro*bate\, v. t.
   To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction
   officially.
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         I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.
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   Note: This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally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).
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