Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.to disapprove, blame, condemn, reject (class.; syn.: culpo, vitupero, criminor, etc.): multi, qui domi aetatem agerent, propterea sunt improbati, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6 (Trag. v. 296 Vahl.): “hoc negas te. posse nec approbare nec improbare,” Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 96: “haec improbantur a Peripateticis, a Stoicis defenduntur,” id. Div. 1, 33, 72; id. Ac. 2, 30, 95: “ego ista studia non improbo, moderata modo sint,” id. de Or. 2, 37, 156: “improbantur ii quaestus, qui in odia hominum incurrunt,” id. Off. 1, 42, 150: “Curio utrumque improbans consilium,” Caes. B. C. 2, 31, 1: “per improbaturum haec Jovem,” Hor. Epod. 5, 8: “judicium,” to reject, rescind, make void, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 68: ego frumentum neque attigi neque aspexi: mancipibus potestatem probandi improbandique permisi, of rejecting as unsuitable or insufficient, id. ib. 2, 3, 76, § 175; “2, 2, 74, § 172: ut aut ne cogeret munire aut id, quod munitum esset, ne improbaret,” id. Font. 4, 7: “Vergilius terram, quae filicem ferat, non inprobat vitibus,” Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 29: dibapha Tyria P. Lentulus primus in praetexta usus improbabatur, was censured, Nep. ap. Plin. 9, 39, 63, § 137: “(Nymphae) ad numerum motis pedibus duxere choreas. Improbat has pastor, saltuque imitatus agresti, etc.,” derides, Ov. M. 14, 521.—Esp. in law, to overrule an opinion or judgment: “sententiam,” Gai. Inst. 2, 51; 3, 71 al.—Absol.: “qui si improbasset, cur ferri passus esset? sin probasset, cur, etc.,” Caes. B. C. 1, 32, 3: “inde invident humiliores, rident superiores, improbant boni,” Quint. 11, 1, 17; 1, 3, 14.