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approbation |
blessing or official sanction. [1/2 definitions] |
approval |
favor, sanction, or positive regard. [1/2 definitions] |
approve |
to give official sanction to. [1/3 definitions] |
British East India Company |
a British company that carried on trade with the East Indies from 1600 to 1874 under the sanction of a royal government charter. |
constitutive |
having the power to institute or sanction. [1/2 definitions] |
disapprove |
to refuse to approve or sanction; reject. [1/3 definitions] |
imprimatur |
any official permission or sanction. [1/2 definitions] |
pass |
to sanction; approve. [1/33 definitions] |
pragmatic |
a decree issued by a sovereign head that is adopted as fundamental law; pragmatic sanction. [1/4 definitions] |
ratification |
the act of ratifying; formal approval or sanction, esp. by a legislature. [1/2 definitions] |
samizdat |
the underground publishing and propagation of manuscripts that were denied, or not submitted for, official sanction by the government of the former Soviet Union. [1/2 definitions] |
sanctify |
to grant religious or social sanction to. [1/3 definitions] |
sanctionable |
combined form of sanction. |
theocracy |
a system of government by priests or others who claim a divine sanction. [1/2 definitions] |
warrant |
to give authorization or sanction to; empower. [1/9 definitions] |
warranty |
official authorization or sanction. [1/3 definitions] |
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