Rep"ro*bance (-bans), n. Reprobation. [Obs.] Shak.
Rep"ro*bate (-b?t), a. [L. reprobatus, p. p. of reprobare to
disapprove, condemn. See Reprieve, Reprove.]
1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness;
disallowed; rejected. [Obs.]
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath
rejected them.
Jer. vi. 30.
2. Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up
to vice; depraved.
And strength, and art, are easily outdone By spirits reprobate.
Milton.
3. Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate
conduct. "Reprobate desire." Shak.
Syn. -- Abandoned; vitiated; depraved; corrupt; wicked; profligate;
base; vile. See Abandoned.
Rep"ro*bate, n. One morally abandoned and lost.
I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the
king.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Rep"ro*bate (-b?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprobated (-b?`t?d); p. pr. &
vb. n. Reprobating.] 1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of
extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.
Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do
not believe it, unless the deed appears.
Ayliffe.
Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was
reprobated by the other.
Macaulay.