This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep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.
I have no doubt that this is the fact; the measure is too consentaneous with his system of policy, not to be approbated by him.
I was very much pleased with a great part of his remarks; I approbated his premises, but his conclusions appeared to be directly the reverse of the proper result.
If what you have stated, had been even approbatedin Oct.
Now, instead of God blessing Rachel and Jacob and their offspring, as we are told He did, we might have expected something entirely different, had it not been that God was pleased with and approbated and sustained a plurality of wives.
Coming down to the days of the prophets we find that they were polygamists; also to the days of the kings of Israel, whom God appointed Himself, and approbated and blessed.
The keeping of brothels is, in some cases, approbated by law.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "approbated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
