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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Approbate \Ap"pro*bate\, a. [L. approbatus p. p. of approbare to approve.] Approved. [Obs.] --Elyot. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Approbate \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. Note: This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep a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). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: approbate v 1: approve or sanction officially 2: accept as valid, as of documents [ant: {reprobate}]
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