approbate
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I approbate the one, I reprobate the other.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
We pick and choose, take and leave, approbate and reprobate in a breath.
From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine
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 Hazlitt, William Carew
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 Seward, William Henry
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 Hall, Benjamin Homer
He was accordingly "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers on October 10, 1826.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
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 Bates, Joseph
His course at the Divinity School in Cambridge was much broken; nevertheless, in October, 1826, he was "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers.
From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The students used to speak of having their performances approbated by the instructors.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
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 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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 Falckenberg, Richard
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 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
