Dictionary entry

Reprobate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.