approve🔊

To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.

To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.

(archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.

To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept. +

(archaic) To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.

(law, English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.