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v. t. To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially. [ 1913 Webster ]

I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep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). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. comprobatus, p. p. of comprobare, to approve wholly. ] To agree; to concur. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. improbatus, p. p. of improbare to disapprove; pref. im- not + probare to approve. ] To disapprove of; to disallow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. probatus, p. p. of probare to prove. See Prove. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Proof. [ Obs. ] Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved. Bouvier. Burrill. (b) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record. [ 1913 Webster ]

Probate Court, or
Court of Probate, a court for the probate of wills. --
Probate duty, a government tax on property passing by will. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One morally abandoned and lost. [ 1913 Webster ]

I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reprobated p. pr. & vb. n. Reprobating. ] 1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reprobatus, p. p. of reprobare to disapprove, condemn. See Reprieve, Reprove. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved. [ 1913 Webster ]

And strength, and art, are easily outdone
By spirits reprobate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. “Reprobate desire.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Abandoned; vitiated; depraved; corrupt; wicked; profligate; base; vile. See Abandoned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being reprobate. [ 1913 Webster ]