approbate

May. 31st, 2012 07:08 am
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approbate (AP-ruh-bayt) - v., to officially approve, sanction; to accept (a document) as valid.


The verb form of approbation. Borrowed in the 1400s as approbaten from approbatus, past participle of approbāre, to approve, from ad-, toward + probāre, to prove.

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