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 Hall, Benjamin Homer

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 Seward, William Henry

Gracious knows, I don't approbate coarseness, it shocks me, but narvous sensibility makes me sick.

From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

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 Johnson, Rossiter

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