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 formally rebuke.
To criticize harshly.
An official reprimand.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.