To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
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.
To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
To surrender formally some right or trust.
To cast off, repudiate.
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
To make a renunciation of something.
To give up, resign, surrender.
To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
An act of renouncing.