Approve vs Attested - What's the difference?
approve | attested |
To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (George Gordon Byron),
* (Francis Parkman),
To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
* (Henry Rogers),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (William Black),
(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.
(attest)
Proven; shown to be true with evidence
Supported with testimony
Certified as good, correct, or pure
* 1599 , , First Folio edition, Act V, Scene 1:
(linguistics) Of words or languages, proven to have existed by records.
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* The word slæpwerig'' (sleep-weary) is attested in the Exeter Book in the form ''slæpwerigne .
As verbs the difference between approve and attested
is that approve is to sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm or approve can be (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 while attested is (attest).As an adjective attested is
proven; shown to be true with evidence.approve
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare prove, approbate.Verb
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- Opportunities to approve worth.
- He had approved himself a great warrior.
- 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
- His accountapproves him a man of thought.
- The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
- They had not approved of the deposition of James.
- They approved of the political institutions.
- Note: This word, when it signifies to be pleased with, to think favorably (of''), is often followed by ''of .
Derived terms
() * approval * approvable * I approve this message * approvably * approbationEtymology 2
(etyl) aprouer; . Compare with improve.Verb
(approv)References
*attested
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- A Contract of eternall bond of loue,
- Confirm'd by mutuall ioynder of your hands,
- Atte?ted by the holy clo?e of lippes,
- A term should be included if it's likely that someone would run accross it and want to know what it means. This in turn leads to the somewhat more formal guideline of including a term if it is attested' and ' idiomatic .