To aloth: to make good or alowable: to declare to be true. Laudare & vehementissimè comprobare. Cic. Studiosè libentérque comprobare. Cic. Deus numine suo comprobare aliquid dicitur. Cic. Authoritatem decreti alicuius comprobare. Cic. To alow as good. Fama comprobat. Catul. Factum comprobare alicuius. Liu. Legem comprobare. Liu. Mores comprobare factis. Plaut. By his doings to shewe his maners. Re aliquid comprobare. Terent. By the effect to shewe it to be so. Sententia sua aliquid comprobare. Cic. To alow. Comprobare filentio honorem alicuius. Liu. To approue by saying nothing to the contrary. Testimonio alicuius rem aliquam comprobare. Cic. To approue by witnesse. Vita & moribus comprobare. Cic. Perceleri interitu alicuius comprobatum venenum. Ci. By his sodaine death it appeared he was poysoned. Comprobare. Cicer. To declare to be true. Res somnium comprobauit. The effect shewed the dreame true.

I. Subject., to approve wholly of something, to assent to, sanction, acknowledge (class and very freq., esp in prose): istam tuam sentent. am laudo vehementissimeque comprobo, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 69: decretum consulum, id. Att. 16, 16, D, 14 sq.: orationem omnium assensu, Liv. 5, 9, 7; cf. Suet. Aug. 68; 53: consensu potius eruditorum quam puerorum amore comprobari, Quint. 10, 1, 130 et saep.: has comproba tabulas, Cic. Caecin. 25, 72: ne domesticis quidem exemplis docti numen deorum comprobabimus? id. N. D. 2, 3, 7; Nep. Hann. 3, 1.—

II. Object., to prove, establish, attest, make good, show, confirm, verify something to others as true, good, excellent, virtuous, etc.: ut beneficium verbis initum nunc re comprobes, Ter. And. 5, 1, 5; cf. Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 94: nec hoc oratione solum, sed multo magis vita et factis et moribus conprobavit, Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 65: patris dictum sapiens temeritas filii comprobavit, id. Or. 63, 214: comprobat hominis consilium fortuna, Caes. B. G. 5, 58 fin.; cf. Cat. 61, 62: rem alicujus testimonio, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 48, 119; cf.: indicio conprobato, Sall. C. 50, 1: perceleri (servi) interitu esse ab hoc comprobatum venenum, the quality of the poison was tested, Cic. Cael. 24, 58.