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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REPROBATE, a. [L. reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]
1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jeremiah 6.
2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace.
They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate. Titus 1.
3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2 Timothy 3.
REP'ROBATE, n. A person abandoned to sin; one lost to virtue and religion.
I acknowledge myself a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.
REP'ROBATE, v.t.
1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to disallow; to reject. It expresses more than disapprove or disallow. We disapprove of slight faults and improprieties; we reprobate what is mean or criminal.
2. In a milder sense, to disallow.
Such an answer as this, is reprobated and disallowed of in law.
3. To abandon to wickedness and eternal destruction.
4. To abandon to his sentence, without hope of pardon.
Drive him out to reprobated exile.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" [syn: depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate] n
1: a person without moral scruples [syn: reprobate, miscreant] v
1: reject (documents) as invalid [ant: approbate]
2: abandon to eternal damnation; "God reprobated the unrepenting sinner"
3: express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb (-bated; -bating) Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin reprobatus, past participle of reprobare — more at reprove Date: 15th century 1. to condemn strongly as unworthy, unacceptable, or evil <reprobating the laxity of the age> 2. to foreordain to damnation 3. to refuse to accept ; reject Synonyms: see criticize • reprobative adjective • reprobatory adjective II. adjective Date: 15th century 1. archaic rejected as worthless or not standing a test ; condemned 2. a. foreordained to damnation b. morally corrupt ; depraved 3. expressing or involving reprobation 4. of, relating to, or characteristic of a reprobate III. noun Date: 1545 a reprobate person

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n., adj., & v. --n. 1 an unprincipled person; a person of highly immoral character. 2 a person who is condemned by God. --adj. 1 immoral. 2 hardened in sin. --v.tr. 1 express or feel disapproval of; censure. 2 (of God) condemn; exclude from salvation. Derivatives: reprobation n. Etymology: ME f. L reprobare reprobat- disapprove (as RE-, probare approve)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reprobate Rep"ro*bate (-b?t), a. [L. reprobatus, p. p. of reprobare to disapprove, condemn. See Reprieve, Reprove.] 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. 2. Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved. And strength, and art, are easily outdone By spirits reprobate. --Milton. 3. Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. ``Reprobate desire.'' --Shak. Syn: Abandoned; vitiated; depraved; corrupt; wicked; profligate; base; vile. See Abandoned.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reprobate Rep"ro*bate, n. One morally abandoned and lost. I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. --Sir W. Raleigh.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reprobate Rep"ro*bate (-b?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprobated (-b?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reprobating.] 1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject. Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears. --Ayliffe. Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other. --Macaulay. 2. To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon. Syn: To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(reprobates) If you describe someone as a reprobate, you mean that they behave in a way that is not respectable or morally correct. (OLD-FASHIONED) ...a drunken reprobate. N-COUNT [disapproval]

Easton's Bible Dictionary

that which is rejected on account of its own worthlessness (Jer. 6:30; Heb. 6:8; Gr. adokimos, "rejected"). This word is also used with reference to persons cast away or rejected because they have failed to make use of opportunities offered them (1 Cor. 9:27; 2 Cor. 13:5-7).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

The close phonetic resemblance and etymological affinity of dokimos to the verb dokimazo, "to try," "test," has caused the notion of "being tested," "tried," and its opposite of "being found wanting in the test" to associate itself more or less distinctly with the adjectives dokimos and adokimos. Thus the more complex meaning results of that which is acknowledged or rejected, because it has approved or not approved itself in testing. This connotation is present in 2Co 13:5,6,7; 2Ti 3:8; Tit 1:16; Heb 6:8. In the first two of these passages the word is used of Christians who ostensibly were in the true faith, but either hypothetically or actually are represented as having failed to meet the test. "Reprobate unto every good work" (Tit 1:16) are they who by their life have disappointed the expectation of good works. The "reprobate (rejected) land" of Heb 6:8 is land that by bearing thorns and thistles has failed to meet the test of the husband man. It should be noticed, however, that adokimos, even in these cases, always retains the meaning of rejection because of failure in trial; compare in the last-named passage: "rejected and nigh unto cursing."

LITERATURE.

Cremer, Biblisch-theologisches Worterbuch der neutestamentlichen Gracitat(10), 356-57.

Geerhardus Vos

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Depraved, abandoned, profligate, corrupt, hardened, lost, graceless, base, shameless, wicked, vile, vitiated, irredeemable, castaway. II. n. Villain, castaway, outcast, miscreant, caitiff, vile wretch. III. v. a. 1. Disapprove, reject, discard, condemn, censure, reprehend. 2. Disallow. 3. Disown, abandon.

Moby Thesaurus

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