improve

verb

Etymology: From Latin improbō (“disapprove, reject”). Doublet of improbate.

1. To disprove or make void; to refute.

   “One ſayth this and a nother that / but can not agre. Nether can any of them make ſo ſtronge a reaſon vvhich a nother can not improve.”

2. To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.

   “[W]hen he reherſed his preachinge and his doynges vnto the hye Apoſtles / they coulde improve no thinge […]”

   “You would improve his negligence, too oft to ease retir’d: […]”