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Approved. [Obs.] Elyot.

One who approves. [R.]

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

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning. So many laws argue so many sins. Milton.

A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation. The argument is about things, but names. Locke.

ropositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale.

lessed Virgin was so ascertained. Jer. Taylor. Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. Robertson.

Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.

Trial; attempt; essay. [Obs.] Chaucer. I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance. Milton.

Capable of being associated or joined. We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. -- Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate partic…

To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.

nguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

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

To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait. Walpole.

To assert, or prove, the truth of. [Obs.]

A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.