Approve

1. v. t. To make profit of; to convert to one’s own profit; — said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
2. v. t. To show to be real or true; to prove.
3. v. t. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
4. v. t. To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.
5. v. t. To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.
6. v. t. To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.