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approbate

[ap-ruh-beyt] / ˈæp rəˌbeɪt /


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The Stadtholder was too wary a politician to approbate immediately so sweeping a proposal, and referred it to the States-General.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson

I approbate domestic factories, but nothin' further for us.

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

While throughout the world you rove, Thus uphold your banners; Give these reasons why you prove Hearts of men and manners: "To reprove the reprobate, Probity approving, Improbate from approbate To remove, I'm moving."

From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds

Gracious knows, I don't approbate coarseness, it shocks me, but narvous sensibility makes me sick.

From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Aceldama   A place with dreadful associations. animadversion   Strong criticism. approbate   Sanction officially; authorize. arbitrament   Arbitrating; arbitration.

From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward

"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 Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“But,” says one, “the traffic in ardent spirit is a lawful business; it is approbated by law, and is therefore right.”

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

If what you have stated, had been even approbated in Oct.

From A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Joseph Bates

Observe their faces as they enter, and you will perceive some shades there, which, if they are approbated and admitted, will be gone when they come out.—Scenes and Characters in College, New Haven, 1847, p.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

From involuntary comparison of the representative feeling of the spectator with its original in the person observed arises an agreeable or disagreeable feeling of judgment, a judgment of value, approbating or rejecting the latter.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

The intrepid and energetic officer who had planned and executed this scheme of western exploration gave me a copy of his official letter to the Secretary of War, warmly approbating the conduct of Capt.

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




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