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Webster 1913 Edition

Approbate

Ap′pro-bate

,
Adj.
[L.
approbatus
, p. p. of
approbare
to approve.]
Approved.
[Obs.]
Elyot.

Ap′pro-bate

,
Verb.
T.
To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.
I
approbate
the one, I reprobate the other.
Sir W. Hamilton.
☞ This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep a public house.
Pickering (1816).

Webster 1828 Edition

Approbate

AP'PROBATE

,
Adj.
[L. approbatus.] Approved.

AP'PROBATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. approbo, to approve, of ad and probo, to prove or approve. Approbate is a modern word, but in common use in America. it differs from approve, denoting not only the act of the mind, but an expression of the act. See Proof, Approve and Prove.]
To express approbation of; to manifest a liking, or degree of satisfaction; to express approbation officially, as of one's fitness for a public trust.
Mr. Hutchison approbated the choice.

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