Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To confirm; establish; settle conclusively or authoritatively; make certain or lasting.
- To validate by some formal act of approval; accept and sanction, as something done by an agent or a representative; confirm as a valid act or procedure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To give formal
consent to; make officiallyvalid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fourth, the original understanding of the Constitution by the public and the men who voted to ratify is clear that Constitution was to be secular, promote tolerance, and granted no powers in matters of religion.
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Refusing to ratify is no longer an option: the only way to unpick this will be by way either of complete renegotiation or of entering into a derogation of the Treaty.
Some Euro Gobbets 2007
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Refusing to ratify is no longer an option: the only way to unpick this will be by way either of complete renegotiation or of entering into a derogation of the Treaty.
Archive 2007-10-14 2007
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The only other country not to ratify is Somalia, which has no functioning government.
Think Progress » Congressional Authorization of Bush’s Military Commissions Is Not Enough 2006
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Having thus used the terms ratify and confirm, even in regard to the old Confederation, it would have been strange indeed, if the people of the United States, after its formation, and when they came to establish the present Constitution, had spoken of the States, or the people of the States, as acceding to this constitution.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1903
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The US doesn’t ratify a treaty but since a court whose jurisdiction the US also does not recognize says that the failure to ratify is irrelevant, all backed up by more cases from, of course, said court, then the international law binds theUS!
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The US doesn’t ratify a treaty but since a court whose jurisdiction the US also does not recognize says that the failure to ratify is irrelevant, all backed up by more cases from, of course, said court, then the international law binds theUS!
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Her expression would ratify the truth of my words.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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Her expression would ratify the truth of my words.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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If the only reason not to ratify is to deny Obama a "victory" ...
digg.com: Top News 2010
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