- official approval
- (approbatory) approving: expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod"
- Approbation is, in Roman Catholic canon law, an act by which a bishop or other legitimate superior grants to an ecclesiastic the actual exercise of his ministry.
- (Approbatory) Approbativeness is a faculty from the discipline of Phrenology.
- (n.) praise (The crowd welcomed the heroes with approbation.)
- Judgment by a prelate of a priest, declaring him qualified by authorizing him to exercise some sacred ministry. The grant of faculties by a bishop to an ordained cleric.