Crossword clues for approver
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Approver \Ap*prov"er\, n.
One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.
An informer; an accuser. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.(Eng. Law) One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2.
Approver \Ap*prov"er\, n. [See 2d Approve, v. t.] (Eng. Law)
A bailiff or steward; an agent. [Obs.]
--Jacobs.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who approves or gives approval. 2 (context dated legal English) In English common law, a person who accuses a confederate; one who commits approvement.
WordNet
n. an authority with power to approve
Usage examples of "approver".
A river Thug, who was apprehended, turned approver, to save his own life, and gave the following evidence relative to the practices of his fraternity: -- "We embarked at Rajmahul.
Upon this subject Captain Sleeman says, "Even the most sensible approvers, who have been with me for many years, as well Hindoos as Mussulmans, believe that their good or ill success depended upon the skill with which the omens were discovered and interpreted, and the strictness with which they were observed and obeyed.
Upon another occasion, Sahib, an approver, being asked if he had never felt any pity or compunction at murdering old men or young children, or persons with whom he had sat and conversed, and who had told him, perchance, of their private affairs -- their hopes and their fears, their wives and their little ones?
Captain Sleeman reports several conversations upon this subject, which he held at different times with Thugs, who had been taken prisoners, or who had turned approvers.
When the approvers are asked, if they, who still believe in the power of the terrible goddess Davee, are not afraid to incur her displeasure by informing of their fellows, they reply, that Davee has done her worst in abandoning them.
Of the remainder, 31 died in prison, before they were brought to trial, 11 escaped, and 49 turned approvers.
They were arrested in the February following, at the place of rendezvous pointed out by the approver, and most of them condemned and executed.
Of these criminals, 91 were sentenced to death, and 22 to imprisonment for life, leaving 306, who were sentenced to transportation for life, or shorter periods of imprisonment, or who turned approvers, or died in gaol.
Noah Claypole: receiving a free pardon from the Crown in consequence of being admitted approver again Fagin: and considering his profession not altogether as safe a one as he could wish: was, for some little time, at a loss for the means of a livelihood, not burdened with too much work.
Noah Claypole: receiving a free pardon from the Crown in consequence of being admitted approver against Fagin: and considering his profession not altogether as safe a one as he could wish: was, for some little time, at a loss for the means of a livelihood, not burdened with too much work.
Therefore am I the rewarder of all good men, and a strong approver of all who are godly.
Because it exhibits a body of men, numbers of whom disavow the publishing political testimonies, as being concerned therein and approvers thereof.
Secondly, Because it exhibits a body of men, numbers of whom disavow the publishing political testimonies, as being concerned therein and approvers thereof.
Our countrymenAre men more order'd than when Julius CaesarSmiled at their lack of skill, but foundtheir courageWorthy his frowning at: their discipline,Now mingled with their courages, will make knownTo their approvers they are people suchThat mend upon the world.