probated's Usage Examples:

But when he renounced his promise to observe the constitutions his conduct was reprobated by the other bishops, although approved by the pope.

Franklin's opinions we have already indicated; and Madison, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry all reprobated the principle of the system.

The most ascetic Christians began to question the legality of second marriages on the part of either sex, as even paganism had often reprobated second marriages of women.

Origen reprobated medical art on the ground that the prescription here cited is enough; modern faith-healers and Peculiar People have followed in his wake.

To the same effect, the synod of Chalon-sur-Saone (813) reprobated the superstition which was wedded to the pilgrimage (c.

Assets held in the trust do not have to be probated after the grantor's death.

The still prevalent use of linseed in poultices for open wounds is entirely to be reprobated.

'Totally to be reprobated is the use, in order to relieve pain, of belladonna or any other application which affects the skin, in cases where the surgeon may later be required to operate.

In 1811 he proposed that a public subscription should be raised to put a price on Napoleon's head, but this suggestion was strongly reprobated by the British government.

These birds, highly prized from the first, reprobated by the moralist, and celebrated by more than one classical poet, in the course of time were brought in great number to Rome, and ministered in various ways to the luxury of the age.

Synonyms:

substantiation, validation, proof,

Antonyms:

confront, attract, hearten, encourage,