approbate \AP-ruh-beyt\,
verb:
To approve officially.
And as for that one, let him work, let him work all he likes, as long as he doesn't interfere with anybody or touch anybody; let him work—I agree and I approbate!
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Double and the Gambler"
By that logic, it is only the creation of a domestic crowd that can truly approbate the doings of the nation.
-- John Plotz, "The Crowd: British literature and Public Politics"
Approbate stems from the Latin word approbāre, from the root ap- which is a variation of ad-, meaning "towards," and probātus meaning "proved."
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