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Quotation dates: 1490, 1552-1568, 1638-1678
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Reprobat(e, v. P.t. and p.p. also reprobat(t. [Late ME and e.m.E. reprobate to censure (a1450), e.m.E. also = to reject (1526), L. reprobāt-, p.p. stem of reprobāre.] tr.
1. Of God: To reject (a person); to exclude from eternal bliss. 1490 Irland Mir. II 146/23.
[They that] turne to syn and perseueir thar-in thir he reprobat c1552 Lynd. Mon. 6228.
O … God … Quhilk knew … Quho wald … disarue for to be reprobatt 1562-3 Winȝet I 122/13.
The wickit peplereprobat of God c1568 Lauder Minor P. Title page.
Luke in this mirrour …, Gyf thou be reprobat, or chosin, it sal declair to thé 1638 Select Biographies II 18.
God shall choose a man twenty tymes, and refuse or reprobat him twenty-one tymes
2. In legal use: To show (evidence) to be invalid or inadmissible. See also Reprobat(e ppl. adj. 3. 1668 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 439.]
[If in law the depositions of witnesses might be reprobated quoad dicta et testimonium testium or only quoad initialia 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i xxix 5 (1678) 296.
If the depositions of witnesses could not be reprobated by other witnesses, no assize could be convict by an assize of errour
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