Crossword clues for approbation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Approbation \Ap`pro*ba"tion\, n. [L. approbatio: cf. F. approbation. See Approve to prove.]
Proof; attestation. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation.
Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation.
--Macaulay.The silent approbation of one's own breast.
--Melmoth.Animals . . . love approbation or praise.
--Darwin. -
Probation or novitiate. [Obs.]
This day my sister should the cloister enter, And there receive her approbation.
--Shak.Syn: Approval; liking; sanction; consent; concurrence.
Usage: Approbation, Approval. Approbation and approval have the same general meaning, assenting to or declaring as good, sanction, commendation; but approbation is stronger and more positive. ``We may be anxious for the approbation of our friends; but we should be still more anxious for the approval of our own consciences.'' ``He who is desirous to obtain universal approbation will learn a good lesson from the fable of the old man and his ass.'' ``The work has been examined by several excellent judges, who have expressed their unqualified approval of its plan and execution.''
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "proven effectiveness, excellence," from Old French aprobacion or directly from Latin approbationem (nominative approbatio) "an approval," noun of action from past participle stem of approbare (see approve). Meaning "approval, endorsement" is from early 15c.
Wiktionary
n. The act of approve; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval, sanction, commendation or official recognition
WordNet
n. official approval
official recognition or approval [ant: disapprobation]
Wikipedia
Approbation is, in Catholic canon law, an act by which a bishop or other legitimate superior grants to an ecclesiastic the actual exercise of his ministry.
The necessity of approbation, especially for administering the Sacrament of Penance, was expressly decreed by the Council of Trent, so that, except in the case of imminent death, the absolution by a priest not approved would be invalid. This approbation for the Sacrament of Penance is the judicial declaration of the legitimate superior that a certain priest is fit to hear, and has the faculties to hear, the confession of his subjects.
By bishop is meant also his vicar general, or the diocesan administrator during the vacancy of a see, also any regular prelate having ordinary jurisdiction over a certain territory. This approbation may be given orally or in writing, and may be given indirectly, as when, for instance, priests receive power to choose in their own diocese an approved priest of another diocese for their confessor. The bishop may wrongfully but validly refuse his approbation, without which no priest may hear confessions.
A confessor's jurisdiction may be restricted to various classes of persons, e. g. to children, or to men, without the right to hear women. A special approbation is required to hear nuns or women of religious communities, and this extends with modifications to all communities of recognized sisterhoods.
Usage examples of "approbation".
And if we fell among anthropophagi, would not our love of approbation make us long to be as succulent as young pigs?
From these materials, with the counsel and approbation of the patriarch and barons, of the clergy and laity, Godfrey composed the Assise of Jerusalem, a precious monument of feudal jurisprudence.
The revolution of three centuries had produced so remarkable a change in the prejudices of the people, that, with the public approbation, Constantine showed his successors the example of bestowing the honors of the consulship on the Barbarians, who, by their merit and services, had deserved to be ranked among the first of the Romans.
But he was happiest in receiving the approbation of Inza Burrage, who learned, through her brother, what Frank had done.
When I looked for some sign of approbation, for a job well done, Mansfield had already turned casually away.
A sigh passed through the assemblage, and Lawyer Paravant weightily nodded approbation as Krokowski proceeded to develop his theme.
I had been nodding for some time, not in approbation of what he said, but in heaviness of slumber, for I had never before heard him so prosy since I first overtook him on the Colchester road.
There was more pleasure at this, but Scathel silenced the approbation by standing to his full height.
When Galerius subscribed this edict of toleration, he was well assured that Licinius would readily comply with the inclinations of his friend and benefactor, and that any measures in favor of the Christians would obtain the approbation of Constantine.
The superioress gave a smile of approbation, but I saw a dozen aged devotees pulling wry faces.
Yet, before I would signify to him my approbation of his suit, I resolved to inform myself whether or not the heart of Serafina was totally unengaged, and indifferent to any other object, that I might not lay a tyrannical restraint upon her inclinations.
Africa by the voice of the senate and the approbation of Alexander, he appears prudently to have declined the command of armies and the government of provinces.
When the motion was made for an address of thanks, couched in terms that savoured of the most implicit complaisance, approbation, and acquiescence in the measures which the crown had taken, the earl of Egmont, and some other anti-courtiers, affirmed, that such an address would be equally servile and absurd.
Aurelius Cotta, with the approbation of Pompey, proposed a law by which the Judices were to be taken in future from the Senate, Equites, and Tribuni AErarii, the latter probably representing the wealthier members of the third order in the state.
His somewhat darker tone warned me that my earlier utterances about the Massagetae, whom I nonetheless continued to hold in the highest esteem, had by no means been met with unreserved approbation here in this country.