Verb

(approv)

To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}

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),

Opportunities to approve worth.

* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),

He had approved himself a great warrior.

* (George Gordon Byron),

'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.

* (Francis Parkman),

His accountapproves him a man of thought.

To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.

* (Henry Rogers),

The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.

* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),

They had not approved of the deposition of James.

* (William Black),

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 .

Verb

(approv)

(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.

Verb

To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , Mr. H …, whom no distinctions of that sort seemed to disturb, scarce gave himself or me breathing time from the last encounter, but, as if he had task'd himself to prove that the appearances of his vigour were not signs hung out in vain, in a few minutes he was in a condition for renewing the onset}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove , and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}

To turn out; to manifest.

(copulative) To turn out to be.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , passage=He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.}}

To put to the test, to make trial of.

To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.

to prove a will

(archaic) To experience

* Spenser

Where she, captived long, great woes did prove .

(printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.

to prove a page

Verb

(head)

(proove)