approbate
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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
Then if cunning Latin books were translate Into English, well correct and approbate, All subtle science in English might be learned, As well as other people in their own tongues did.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
Not that he would approbate the system of slavery; for he was, and in fact had been through life, its most determined foe.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
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
But says Vox Populi, perhaps the new plan will not have the same number to approbate it, that the constitution of this State had.
From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Paul Leicester Ford
The students used to speak of having their performances approbated by the instructors.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
He was accordingly "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers on October 10, 1826.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
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
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
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 Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
