reprobatoryadj.

1657 R. Watson Hist. Coll. Eccles. Affairs Ep. Ded. sig. A7 I am much more affraid in Christianities behalf of the Leman Lake, than Tiber, and look with more horrour on the rebellions sprung, and reprobatory damnation denounc'd from thence, than on any encroachment upon Kings.

1699 T. Goodman Experienc'd Secretary ii. 64 Letters Reprobatory, or of Reproof, is to shew the Party offending, with gentleness, the Faults he or she has committed.

1744 P. Floyer Proctor's Pract. in Eccl. Courts ii. 139 The Plaintiff may except against the reprobatory Witnesses of the Defendant.

1766 H. Dundas Answer Petition T. Martin 11 If they do insist in such an action, the first step in the process will be to condescend upon the reprobatory facts which they intend to prove in that action.

1810 Brit. Critic 34 95 A solemn, sentimental, and reprobatory epistle to Mrs. Clarke... By Peter Pindar.

1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 559 The fate of Sir Charles Vernon afforded an ample field for reprobatory exclamation.

1912 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Weekly Sentinel 21 Aug. 7/3 The myriad forms of vegetation which we call weeds..deserve that reprobatory name only when they grow uninvited on land in which we have undertaken to give other plants a monopoly of opportunity.

1963 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 30 440 Behavior that did not attract any substantial degree of reprobatory unanimity, such as prohibition or gambling.

1997 W. Pfeffer Prov. in Medieval Occitan Lit. iv. 66 There is yet another proverb in this stanza,..a northern French version of what Peire Vidal states in the third line of this reprobatory strophe.