-- Ac`ro*bat"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

2. (Biol.) Relating to, or like, anaërobies; anaërobiotic. [ 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☞ This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep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 ]

2. The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The silent approbation of one's own breast. Melmoth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Animals . . . love approbation or praise. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Probation or novitiate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This day my sister should the cloister enter,
And there receive her approbation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Approval; liking; sanction; consent; concurrence. -- Approbation, Approval. Approbation and approval have the same general meaning, assenting to or declaring as good, sanction, commendation; but approbation is stronger and more positive. “We may be anxious for the approbation of our friends; but we should be still more anxious for the approval of our own consciences.” “He who is desirous to obtain universal approbation will learn a good lesson from the fable of the old man and his ass.” “The work has been examined by several excellent judges, who have expressed their unqualified approval of its plan and execution.” [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phren.) Love of approbation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; -- called also zebrawood. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean. [ 1913 Webster ]

Centrobaric method (Math.), a process invented for the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for measure the product of the line or surface by the length of the path of its center of gravity; -- sometimes called theorem of Pappus, also, incorrectly, Guldinus's properties. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Approbation. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odors and with music. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make more certain; to confirm; to establish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which corroborates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A song or chant made for such a festivity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A festivity or social gathering, esp. one of a noisy or uproarious character; hence, tumult; uproar. [ Australia ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]