approbate

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No trait of the American scientific character has been more uniformly and highly approbated, by the foreign journals of England, France, and Germany, than its capacity to accumulate, discriminate, and describe facts.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

"I guess that 'ere chap has cut his eye-teeth," said the President; "let him pass as approbated."

From The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

His course at the Divinity School in Cambridge was much broken; nevertheless, in October, 1826, he was "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In 1826, after three years' study, he was "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I guess that are chap has cut his eye teeth, said the President, let him pass as approbated.

From The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler