Reprobate

v. t. [imp. & p. p. REPROBATED; p. pr. & vb. n. REPROBATING.] [Lat. reprobare, reprobatum, to disapprove, condemn. Cf. REPRIEVE.] 1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to disallow; to reject.

Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law. Ayliffe.

Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other. Macaulay.

2Sense 2. To abandon to punishment without hope or pardon.

Synonyms— To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject.

a. [Lat. reprobatus, p. p. of reprobare. See REPROBATE, v. t.]

1Sense 1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.]

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30.

2Sense 2. Hence, abandoned to vice or punishment; morally abandoned and lost.

*And strength and art are easily outdone By spirits reprobate. Milton.*

Synonyms—Abandoned; vitiated; depraved; corrupt; wicked; profligate; base; vile; castaway. See ABANDONED.

n. A person abandoned; one morally lost.

I acknowledge myself a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. Raleigh.