Definition of sanction

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Sanction (n.) Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation.

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Natural :: Natural (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child..
Kite :: Kite (n.) Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill..
Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage..
Enactment :: Enactment (n.) The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it..
Approbate :: Approbate (v. t.) To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.
Official :: Official (n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal..
Allowance :: Allowance (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance..
Editorial :: Editorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks..
Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
Oath :: Oath (n.) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress..
School :: School (n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school..
Sanction :: Sanction (v. t.) To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.
Accredit :: Accredit (v. t.) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
Sanction :: Sanction (n.) Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions..
Inofficial :: Inofficial (a.) Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence..
Code :: Code (n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest..
Amen :: Amen (v. t.) To say Amen to; to sanction fully.
Avouch :: Avouch (v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
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