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▸ verb:  (transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, followed by "of") To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
▸ verb:  (archaic, transitive, usually with a reflexive pronoun) To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
▸ verb:  (transitive, law, English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

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