approved, ppl. a.
(əˈpruːvd)
[f. approve v.1 + -ed.]
1. a. Proved or established by experience, tried, tested.
| c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 1409 A noble knyȝt aproued. 1489 Caxton Faytes of Armes i. xxiii. 71 The..mooste approued men of armes. 1563 T. Gale Antidot. Pref. 1 Diuers approued medicines. 1656 Bramhall Replic. iv. 177 Persons..of approued integrity. 1709 Lond. Gaz. mmmmccccxxi/3 The humble Address of the Bayliff, Steward, Approved-men, and Burgesses of..Andover. 1790 Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 64 The old approved mode. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's xx, The mortar and stone of the most approved builder. |
† b. Proved, convicted. Obs.
| 1599 Shakes. Much Ado iv. i. 45 To knit my soul to an approued wanton. 1635 Swan Spec. Mundi i. §3 (1643) 11 Approved liars. |
3. Pronounced good; justified, sanctioned, commended, esteemed.
| 1667 Milton P.L. vi. 36 To stand approv'd in sight of God. 1690 Locke Hum. Und. iii. v. (1695) 244 To have..very good and approved Words in their Mouths. 1737 Whiston Josephus' Wars i. i. §2 The most approved among them were put to death. |
4. approved-of: regarded with commendation.
| 1670 Eachard Contempt Clergy 22 An approved-of cobler or tinker. |
5. approved school, a place of training for boys or girls who have been found guilty of offences or exposed to moral danger.
| 1932 Hansard Commons CCLXI. 1179 The question of the approved schools, as they will in future be called—the schools which are known to the public at present as reformatory and industrial schools. 1933 Act 23 Geo. V c. 12 §107 (1), ‘Approved school’ means a school approved by the Secretary of State under section seventy-nine of this Act. 1938 Times 7 Dec. 10/3 The effect of the change of name from ‘Reformatory’ and ‘Industrial’ to ‘Approved Schools’ cannot be exaggerated. No youth is ashamed of having been in an approved school. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. i. 228 Larrie's an orphan, an institution boy who's been in a lot of trouble, he's had three convictions for petty thieving and he's been to an Approved School. |
6. approved society, a Friendly Society (see friendly a. 8) legally empowered to administer benefits under the National Insurance Act of 1911 and subsequent Acts down to that of 1946.
| 1911 Act 1 & 2 Geo. V c. 55 §23 (1) Any society.. which complies with the requirements of this Act..may be approved by the Insurance Commissioners, and, if so approved, shall be an approved society for the purposes of this Part of this Act. 1952 Oxf. Jun. Encycl. X. 171/1 Under the 1911 National Health Act certain registered friendly societies, known as ‘approved societies’, were used by the Government as part of the health scheme to pay out as ‘sick benefit’ sums of money provided by the Government... But after the National Insurance Act of 1946 this use of friendly societies by the Government was discontinued. |