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approver2 (s.xiii2/3)

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approver2 (s.xiii2/3)

approber,  approver,  approuver,  approvir;  aprover,  asprover;  approer,  appruer,  apruer  
  FEW:  approbare 25,52b Gdf:  aprover 1,364b GdfC:  aprouver 9,159b TL: aprover 1,481 DEAF: DMF:  approuver  TLF:  approuver  OED:  approve v.1  / approved a.  MED:  ap(p)reven v.  DMLBS:  approbare 109c

v.trans.

1to prove, test
( 1389 )  Porceo que trové est et apprové que […]  YMB i 41
( 1391 )  (that) toutz ceux poyntz et chescun d’eux par soy est voir le dit defendaunt est prest d’aprover come le court voet agarder  Admiralty Pleas 12
( 1415 )  mes chiers servants approvez de loialté envers moy  Reg Chich ii 65
2to approve
( 1309 )  sauve touz jours au roi les aunciens prises et custoumes auncyenement dues et approvees  Ann Lond 161.13
( 1376 )  il supplient qe tout tieles protections soient ore repellez, et null tieles desoreenavaunt granteez, si ne soit par resonable et bien approvee cause  Rot Parl1 ii 332
( 1395; MS: s.xv1 )  que les estat et possession […] veullez ratifier, appruer et confermer  Lett & Pet 256.181.11
( 1396-97 )  quelle protestation […] le Roi […] accepta et approva pur voire en touz pointz  Rot Parl1 iii 237

p.p. as a.

1tried, tested
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Cest emplastre est aprové  Nov Chir ANTS 40
2checked, examined
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  examinatus: (L) aprové  TLL ii 74.156

See also:

prover1 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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