Definition of sanction

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Sanction (n.) Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions..

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Negative :: Negative (v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill..
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..
Plebiscite :: Plebiscite (n.) A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791..
Avouch :: Avouch (v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o
Taoism :: Taoism (n.) One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state..
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.
Allowance :: Allowance (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance..
Precedented :: Precedented (a.) Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind.
Indorsement :: Indorsement (n.) Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct..
Authorized :: Authorized (a.) Sanctioned by authority.
Authorization :: Authorization (n.) The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.
Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate..
Approval :: Approval (n.) Approbation; sanction.
Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report..
Approbation :: Approbation (n.) The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation.
Standard :: Standard (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard..
Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law..
Judicial :: "Judicial (a.) Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale..
Sanctioned :: Sanctioned (imp. & p. p.) of Sanctio.
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