approbate
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We pick and choose, take and leave, approbate and reprobate in a breath.
From Obiter Dicta by Augustine Birrell
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
How often does the professor whose duty it is to criticise and approbate the pieces for this exhibition wish they were better!
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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
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 was approbated by the Boston Association, I suspect, as a person well known, but known as an anomaly, and admitted in charity.—Memorial of John S. Popkin, D.D., p. lxxxv.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
He was "approbated" by the Ministers' Association in 1826.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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
“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
"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
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
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
