Ap*proach`a*bil"i*ty (&?;), n. The quality of being approachable; approachableness.
Ap*proach"a*ble (&?;), a. Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.
Ap*proach"a*ble*ness, n. The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
Ap*proach"er (&?;), n. One who approaches.
Ap*proach"ing, n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
Ap*proach"less, a. Impossible to be approached.
Ap*proach"ment (&?;), n. [Cf. F. approachement.] Approach. [Archaic] Holland.
Ap"pro*bate (&?;), a. [L. approbatus, p. p. of approbare to approve.] Approved. [Obs.] Elyot.
Ap"pro*bate (&?;), v. t. To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.
I approbate the one, I reprobate the other.
Sir W. Hamilton.
This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep a public house. Pickering (1816).
Ap`pro*ba"tion (&?;), n. [L. approbatio: cf. F. approbation. See Approve to prove.] 1. Proof; attestation. [Obs.] Shak.
2. The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation.
Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation.
Macaulay.
The silent approbation of one's own breast.
Melmoth.
Animals . . . love approbation or praise.
Darwin.