approbate
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We pick and choose, take and leave, approbate and reprobate in a breath.
From Obiter Dicta by Augustine Birrell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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
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
