Approve: alternatives and connections

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

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Same as Indorse.

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To cover the back of; to load or burden.

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To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

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Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; es…

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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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See Vis/.

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Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.

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Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.

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Proof; attestation.

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Proof; attestation.

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Approving, or implying approbation.

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Approving, or implying approbation.

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Approbation; sanction.

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Approbation; sanction.

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Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; es…

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To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprov…

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To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprov…

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