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Avouch :: Avouch (v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

Indorsement :: Indorsement (n.) Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct..

Sanctionary :: Sanctionary (a.) Of, pertaining to, or giving, sanction..

Precedented :: Precedented (a.) Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind.

Legatine :: Legatine (a.) Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate; as, a legatine constitution..

Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal..

Warrant :: Warrant (n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it..

Official :: Official (n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal..

Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage..

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.

Sacred :: Sacred (a.) Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable..

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..

Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report..

Sanctify :: Sanctify (v. t.) To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to..

Sanctioned :: Sanctioned (imp. & p. p.) of Sanctio.

Approbate :: Approbate (v. t.) To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.

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..

Plebiscite :: Plebiscite (n.) A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791..

Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction..

Disapprove :: Disapprove (v. t.) To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief..

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