1. [n]  a person without moral scruples
2. [adj]  marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"
3. [v]  reject as invalid, as of documents
4. [v]  express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"
5. [v]  Theology: abandon to eternal damnation; "God reprobated the unrepenting sinner"

1. \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. [Obs.]
            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}.
   

2. \Rep"ro*bate\, n.
   One morally abandoned and lost.
         I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a
         traitor to the king.                     --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.
   

3. \Rep"ro*bate\ (-b?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reprobated}
   (-b?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reprobating}.]
   1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme
      dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.
            Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed
            of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed
            appears.                              --Ayliffe.
            Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of
            them, was reprobated by the other.    --Macaulay.
   2. To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.
   Syn: To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject.
   

that which is rejected on account of its own worthlessness (Jer. 6:30; Heb. 6:8; Gr. adokimos, "rejected"). This word is also used with reference to persons cast away or rejected because they have failed to make use of opportunities offered them (1 Cor. 9:27; 2 Cor. 13:5-7).