† apprevev.

Etymology: < Old French a(p)- preuve , tonic stem of aprover (sometimes even extended to infinitive appreuver , Godefroy); the northern and, especially, Scots equivalent of approve v.¹ With approbā-, apreuve, apreve, compare afforā-, affeure, affeer, and the northern meve for move. Now obsolete, except in later past participle approven (on analogy of weave, woven, etc.), which is regarded merely as a Scots variant of approved.