Ap"pro*bate (&?;), a. [L. approbatus, p. p. of approbare to approve.] Approved. [Obs.] Elyot.

Ap"pro*bate (&?;), v. t. To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.

I approbate the one, I reprobate the other.
Sir W. Hamilton.

&fist; This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep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