Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To disallow; refuse to approve.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To disapprove of; to disallow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To disapprove of.
  • verb obsolete To disallow.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin improbatus, past participle of improbare to disapprove; prefix im- not + probare to approve.

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