Meaning & use
Approbate
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To approve or sanction officially, especially in a formal or legal sense.
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The board voted to approbate the new bylaws at its spring meeting.
State law required the commission to approbate the contractor's license before work could begin.
A note on using this word
"Approbate" survives mainly in legal usage and in the doctrine of "approbate and reprobate," a principle in Scots and American law that prevents a party from accepting and rejecting the same instrument at once.
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