Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Approbate

Approbate ({not transcribed}) , adjective

[Latin approbatus, past participle of approbare to approve.]

Approved. [Obsolete] — Elyot

Approbate ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.
I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. — Sir W. Hamilton

This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep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