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Confirmation :: Confirmation (n.) The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment..

Sanction :: 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.

Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage..

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

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

Ratification :: Ratification (n.) The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified; confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty..

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..

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

Spoilsmonger :: Spoilsman (n.) One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Natural :: Natural (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child..

Sanction :: Sanction (v. t.) To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.

Inofficial :: Inofficial (a.) Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence..

Approve :: Approve (v. t.) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial..

Accredit :: Accredit (v. t.) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

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