Approbo, ápprobas, pen. cor. approbâre. To approoue: to allow: to shew or proone that a thing is worthy to be alowed: to make good: to confirme and prooue with reasons.Clamore approbare aliquid.Cic.Approbare & laudare.Cic.Vna voce & consensu approbauit populus.Cic.Approbatus ab omnibus. Quint. Approbare & Improbare, veluti contraria.Cic. Facere aliquid Musis approbantibus.Cic.Dijs homini búsque approbantibus.Cic.Dij approbent.Cic.God giue youioy. Approbare opus, sine probare. Paulus. To shewe that the worke is perfect and good.
Approbus, siue per D. Adprobus, A diectiuum, pen. corr. Valde probus. Cæcilius. Very bonest.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ap-prŏbo (adp-, Fleck., Bait., Halm, Weissenb.; app-, Kayser), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.I.To assent to as good, to regard as good, to approve, to favor (freq. and class.; syn.: probo, laudo): id si non fama adprobat, Ter. Phorm. 4, 5, 12: (populus Romanus) meum jus jurandum unā voce et consensu approbavit, Cic. Pis. 3, 7: approbatā laudatāque Cottae sententiā, id. Sest. 34, 74: aliquid magno clamore, id. Arch. 10, 24: legiones clamore donum adprobantes, Liv. 7, 37; 7, 41: consilium vehementer adprobare, Cic. ad Q. Fr. 3, 4 et saep.—So of the gods, to allow a thing to take place, to favor (cf. admitto, II. B.): quod actum est di adprobent, Cic. Fam. 2, 15; 1, 9, 19: musis omnibus adprobantibus, id. ib. 7, 23, 2; cf. Plaut. Am. prol. 13.—II.To show as being good and true, to make evident, to prove, demonstrate, confirm, establish: hoc autem nihil attinet approbari, Cic. Inv. 1, 36 fin.: innocentiam adprobare, Tac. A. 1, 44: excusationem, id. Agr. 42.—With acc. and inf.: vivere eos approbant, Plin. 9, 57, 83: quo magis degenerāsse eum a civili more approbaret, Suet. Aug. 17: Cajo talem et se et exercitum approbavit, ut, etc., Suet. Galb. 6 al.—III. Aliquid alicui adprobare, to make good to one, to render acceptable, satisfactory: opus manu factum regi adprobavit, Vitr. 9, 3: prima castrorum rudimenta duci adprobavit,
his first military duties he learned to the satisfaction of his commander
, Tac. Agr. 5; Dig. 19, 2, 24; cf. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 7, 63.
ap-prŏbus (adp-), a, um, adj. [ad intens.; cf. apprimus], very good or excellent; as an adj. once: adulescens adprobus, Caecil. ap. Gell. 7, 7, 9.—Once as adv.: ap-prŏbē: ni me ille et ego illum novissem adprobe,