Ratify: alternatives and connections

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.

To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.

To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.

establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?"

To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as,…

To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.

To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Se…

making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it; "the ratification of the treaty"; "confirmation of the appointment"

Tending to confirm or establish.

An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respec…

To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.

One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin.

That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including,…

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experiment…

The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the…

To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.