Reprobate — Defs

01 a. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.

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.

02 n. One morally abandoned and lost.

1.
One morally abandoned and lost.
“I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.” — Sir W. Raleigh.

03 v. t. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.

imp. & p. p. Reprobated; 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.