LekhoriLekhoriSanctioning officially, giving authorization or approval to something.
And if the words have any graine of truth in them, they must be undestood [sic] not of an Authorative, but onely of a Consultive Power to advise him, or at the most approbative, to give their assent to Laws propounded, he having limited himselfe to make no Laws without them.
A word or grammatical form which denotes a positive affect expressing the appreciation or approval of the speaker.
From Medieval Latin approbātīvus, from Latin approbō (“assert, accept, confirm”).
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