APPROVE Copy link • APPROVEprobare aliquem or aliquid: approbare, comprobare aliquid: laudare (to praise): praedicare (to extol): assentire or assentiri alicui rei (assent to): album calculum adjicere alicui rei (Plin., vote for it): ratum habere (to recognize as valid; e.g., the acts of a governor, etc.: of a law, sometimes jubere). To approve of what has been done, probare ea quae facta sunt. See more under Approbation. To approve one’s self to anybody, se alicui probare. To approve one’s selffaithful, etc., se fidum praestare, praebere. To prove, probare aliquid alicui, etc., Vid: Approved, to be, probari alicui or ab aliquo: placere alicui; laudari (to be praised, etc.): satisfacere (to satisfy). More under APPROBATION. Approved (= tried and allowed to be so): probatus; spectatus; spectatus et probatus; spectatus et cognitus; spectatus jam et diu cognitus; confessus (allowed). A man of approved virtue, integrity, etc., homo probatus or spectatus; homo virtute cognita; vir spectatae integritatis.