verb

• (transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
• (transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
• (transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
• (intransitive, followed by "of") To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
• (archaic, transitive, usually with a reflexive pronoun) To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
• (transitive, law, English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.