Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REP'RO-BATE, 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. – Ayliffe.
3. To abandon to wickedness and eternal destruction. – Hammond.
4. To abandon to his sentence, without hope or pardon. Drive him out / To reprobated exile. – Southern.