"approbate" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Latin approbatus",
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      "expansion": "Doublet of approve",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin approbatus. Doublet of approve.",
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      "form": "more approbate",
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    },
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      "form": "most approbate",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named The Governour:",
          "text": "And if they wyll allege that all thynge contayned in holy scripture is approbate by the hole consent of all the clergie of Christendoms […]",
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        }
      ],
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        "Approved."
      ],
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  "word": "approbate"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin approbatus. Doublet of approve.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "approbates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "approbating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "approbated",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "approbated",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "approbate and reprobate"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To give official sanction, consent or authorization to."
      ],
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          "sanction",
          "sanction"
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        [
          "consent",
          "consent"
        ],
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          "authorization",
          "authorization"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To give official sanction, consent or authorization to."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "approbate"
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    "English verbs",
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      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of approve",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin approbatus. Doublet of approve.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more approbate",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most approbate",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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          "ref": "1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named The Governour:",
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        }
      ],
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        "Approved."
      ],
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    }
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    "Pages with 2 entries",
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    {
      "word": "approbate and reprobate"
    }
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin approbatus. Doublet of approve.",
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    {
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        "third-person"
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      "form": "approbating",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "approbated",
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    },
    {
      "form": "approbated",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To give official sanction, consent or authorization to."
      ],
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          "consent",
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        "(transitive) To give official sanction, consent or authorization to."
      ],
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