APPROBATION Copy link • APPROBATIONprobatio: approbatio: comprobatio (approval): assensio or assensus (assent): plaueus (applause): assentatio (hypocritical approbation; in good sense, post-Augustan): acclamatio: clamores (cries of approbation; but in Cic., acclamatio is a cry of disapprobation.) (The words are found in this connection and order), plausus clamoresque. To receive anything or anybody with approbation, probare aliquem or aliquid; approbare, comprobare aliquid (approve): alicui applaudere, plausum alicui dare or impertire; applaudere et approbare aliquem or aliquid; plausu, plausu et clamore prosequi aliquid (to applaud it): assentire, or assentiri alicui, or alicui rei; alicui assentari, suffragari, astipulari, album calculum adjicere alicui rei (vote for it: the last Plin.). To express unanimous approbation of anything, consensu et una voce approbare aliquid. Not to give, to withhold, one’s approbation, assensum (also with a re) retinere, cohibere: sustinere se ab assensu: to express clamorous approbation of any body, clamore et vocibus alicui astrepere: to express approbation loudly, magno clamore approbare aliquid. To receive, or be honored with, approbation approbari: any body’s approbation, probari alicui or ab aliquo; alicui placere: general approbation, omnibus probari or placere; ab omnibus laudari; omnium assensu comprobari. With clamorous expressions of approbation cum plausibus clamoribusque. To meet with no approbation, improbari; displicere: a speech is received without any approbation, oratio friget. To court approbation, assensionem captare; laudem venari. Liking for, amor: studium alicujus rei: proclivitas ad aliqiud (of a bad inclination for): inclinatio animi or voluntatis ad aliquid. Attestation, adfirmatio: confirmatio. (To do anything) in approbation of (= to confirm) anything, ut rem testimonio confirmet, etc., or by other circumlocution with fidem alicui rei addere; aliquid testimonio coufirmare, etc.