approbate

Example Sentences

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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

We pick and choose, take and leave, approbate and reprobate in a breath.

From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine

I approbate the one, I reprobate the other.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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

Alan?' said my father—'Would you approbate and reprobate, sir?

From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir