Ap-prŏve'ment, n.

n. 1. Approbation; liking. [Obs.] I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward. 2. (Law.) (a.) A confession of guilt by prisoners charged with crime, together with an accusation of their accomplices and a giving evidence against them, for the purpose of obtaining their own pardon. The term, in this sense, is no longer in use; it corresponds to what is now known as turning king's evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States. Burrill. Bouvier. (b.) Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry. Blackstone.