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 feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
To scoff, to express contempt.
To reject, turn down.
A display of disdain; a slight.
Contempt or disdain.
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.