different between conspire vs approve

English

Etymology

From Middle English conspiren, from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare, consp?r?, from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + sp?r? (“breathe”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?spa??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)

Verb

conspire (third-person singular simple present conspires, present participle conspiring, simple past and past participle conspired)

1. (intransitive) To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results.

   • They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.

2. (intransitive) To agree, to concur to one end.
   • Roscommon

     The press, the pulpit, and the stage / Conspire to censure and expose our age.

   • 1744, Georg Friedrich Händel, Hercules, act 3, scene 5

     I feel my vanquish'd heart conspire

     To crown a flame by Heav'n approv'd.

3. (transitive) To try to bring about.
   • Bishop Hall

   Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.

Synonyms

• (secretly plot): collogue

Related terms

• co-conspirator
• conspiracy
• conspiration
• conspirator
• inspire
• spirit

Translations

Anagrams

• incorpse, scorpine

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: conspirent, conspires

Verb

conspire

1. first-person singular present indicative of conspirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of conspirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of conspirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of conspirer
5. second-person singular imperative of conspirer

Portuguese

Verb

conspire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of conspirar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of conspirar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of conspirar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of conspirar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kon?spire]

Verb

conspire

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of conspira
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of conspira

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kons?pi?e/, [kõns?pi.?e]

Verb

conspire

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of conspirar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of conspirar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of conspirar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of conspirar.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p?u?v/
• Rhymes: -u?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English aproven, appreoven, appreven, apreven, borrowed from Old French aprover, approver, approuvir, appreuver (“to approve”), from Latin approb?, from ad + prob? (“to esteem as good, approve, prove”). Compare prove, approbate.

Verb

approve (third-person singular simple present approves, present participle approving, simple past and past participle approved)

1. (transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.

2. (transitive) To regard as good or suitable; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.

3. (transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession Of James II

     He had approved himself a great warrior.

   • 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series

     Opportunities to approve […] worth.

   • 1812-1818, Lord Byron, Child Harolde's Piligrimage

     'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.

   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, III:

     He had long burned with impatience to approve his valour.

4. (intransitive, followed by "of") To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
   • 2016, Mitski, Your Best American Girl

     Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me. But I do, I think I do. And you're an all-American boy

   • 1995, The Verve, A Northern Soul

     Dad didn't approve of me, do you? I'm alive with something inside of me.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession Of James II

     They had not approved of the deposition of James.

   • 1758, Jonathan Swift, The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen

     Their address was in the most dutiful manner, approving of what her majesty had done toward a peace, and dissolve her parliament

5. (archaic, transitive, usually with a reflexive pronoun) To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Duty and Advantageous of Trust in God

     The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English approuen, approven, from Old French aprouer; a- + a form apparently derived from the pro, prod, in Latin pr?sum (“be useful or profitable”). Compare with improve.

Verb

approve (third-person singular simple present approves, present participle approving, simple past and past participle approved)

1. (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.

References

• approve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.