An archaic or obsolete term meaning to approve or allow; to give consent or permission to.
From Old French 'aprover', from Latin 'approbare' (to assent to), combining 'ad-' (to) + 'probare' (to approve, prove). This archaic form predates modern 'approve' and is largely superseded.
This word is a linguistic fossil—it's what 'approve' used to sound like before English pronunciation shifted, preserved only in historical documents and old literature.
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