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disapprove, v.|dɪsəˈpruːv|
[prob. a. OF. *desaprove-r, mod.F. désapprouve-r to disapprove, f. des-, dis- 4 + aprover, approuver to approve. Our earliest quot. however is earlier than the first recorded in Hatz.-Darm. (1535).]
†1. trans. To prove to be untrue or wrong; to disprove. Obs.
1481Caxton Tully's Friendship, Orat. G. Flaminius F j a, The vulgar oppynyon..I holde it ful easy to disapprove syth it is so full of errours. 1540Coverdale Confut. Standish Wks. II. 378 Sundry places of scripture, the circumstances whereof doth utterly disapprove your doctrine. 1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 723 Such like vanities have the ancient Heathens..firmly believed, till..experience disapproved their inventions. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) 1. Pref. 9 Things not thoroughly proved, or absolutely disapproved; but which are reserved for further examination. 1793E. Parsons Mem. Mrs. Menville IV. 15 My conduct shall disapprove her malicious conjectures.
2. The reverse of to approve: to regard with disfavour or moral condemnation; to feel or express disapprobation of.
1647Cowley Mistress, Love gone over, iii, Fate does disapprove Th' Ambition of thy Love. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 280 Some approved, others disapproved the Interpretation of St. Paul. 1713Steele Englishman No. 31. 197 Why must I hear what I disapprove, because others see what they approve? 1833H. Martineau Brooke Farm i, I disapprove the object of such a meeting. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh ii. 960 Henceforth none Could disapprove me.
absol.1717Pope Eloisa 259 Nature stands check'd; Religion disapproves. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 97 Rochester, disapproving and murmuring, consented to serve.
3. intr. with of († rarely to). = 2. Also with indirect passive.
1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World (1757) 113 This..was not disapproved of by some of my people who eat of it. 1745Wesley Answ. Ch. 4, I wholly disapprove of all these Positions. 1799R. Sickelmore Agnes & L. I. 182 Don Sebastian enquired to what..the Count de Tourville could disapprove. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxiv, The leader disapproved of this arrangement. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 181 Modern jurists would disapprove of the redress of injustice being purchased only at an increasing risk.
Hence disaˈpproved ppl. a., disaˈpproving vbl. n. and ppl. a.; disaˈpprovingly adv., in a disapproving manner; also † disaˈpprovement, disapproval; disaˈpprover, one who disapproves.
1648J. Goodwin Right & Might 11 A disapprovement of the factious carriage of things. 1653Milton Hirelings Wks. (1851) 375 Wrung out of mens Purses to maintain a disapprov'd Ministry against thir Conscience. 1654–5Ld. Hatton in Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 165, I find my selfe exceedingly out in the approving or disapproving of persons. 1661Boyle Style of Script Ep. Ded. (1675) 8 Not incompetent judges..have been pleased to give these papers no disapproving character. 1794Hist. in Ann. Reg. 107 Every disapprover of their politics and religious tenets. 1820Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance 178 The disapprovers of the designs for educating the people. 1832Examiner 646/1, I have spoken disapprovingly of the method. 1860Ellicott Life our Lord v. 229 note, The opinion..is noticed, not disapprovingly, by Lightfoot. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 26 There was unkind triumph or disapproving pity in the glances of greeting neighbours. |