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A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

Worthy of being approved; meritorious. -- Ap*prov"a*ble*ness, n.

ke proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. Opportunities to approve . . . worth. Emerson. He had approved himself a great warrior. Macaulay. 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true. Byron. His account . . . approves him a man of thought. Parkman.

ing else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn…

To form or bend into the shape of an arch. The horse arched his neck. Charlesworth.

etype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. "One archetypal mind." Gudworth.

Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

aldic arms or escutcheon of a family. Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4.

consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. I hate not you for her proud arrogance. Shak.

k. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.

ful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impute unworthy motives. The theological sense of impute is not here taken into view. More than good-will to me attribute naught. Spenser. Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit. Pope. And fairly quit him of the imputed blame. Spense…

rescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

ion; to make over. In the order I assign to them. Loudon. The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. [Obs.] Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller.

To soil; to stain. [Obs. or Poet.] Beau. & Fl. Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield. Wordsworth.

hat which is assumed; an assumption. [Obs.] The sun of all your assumpts is this. Chillingworth.

practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

To discourse, argue, or act as an atheist. [R.] -- A"the*i`zer, n. Cudworth.

The doctrine of atoms. Cudworth.

Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.