Definition of Ratified

1. Adjective. Formally approved and invested with legal authority.

Exact synonyms: Sanctioned
Similar to: Legal

Definition of Ratified

1. Verb. (past of ''ratify'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ratified

1. ratify [v] - See also: ratify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratified

rathite
rathole
ratholed
ratholes
ratholing
rathripe
rathripes
raths
rathskellers
raticide
raticides
ratifiable
ratification
ratifications
ratified (current term)
ratifier
ratifiers
ratifies
ratify
ratifying
ratihabition
ratihabitions
ratine
ratines
rating
rating system
ratings
ratio
ratio decidendi

Literary usage of Ratified

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"lature of Iowa ratified it April 3d, 1868 ; the legislature of Arkansas ratified it April 6th, 1868; the legislature of Florida ratified it June 3th, ..."

2. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary by Joseph Story (1891)
"No State shall several States of the Union, have ratified the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, duly proposed by ..."

3. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"sri"""'''" thereof, duly ratified and that all the provisions thereof, except said paragraph thirty-six which failed of ratification by the Creek national ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The union of Scotland with England is ratified and the first parliament of Great ... Peace ratified at Paris between Great Britain, France and Spain. 1764. ..."

5. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"The legislatures of these several States met and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment and during the month of July the Senate and the House admitted their ..."

6. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"They were ratified by the following States, and the notifications of ratification by the govenors thereof were successively communicated by the President to ..."

7. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"The Mexican treaty was ratified by the Senate, March 11, by a vote of 41 to 20. ... The treaty of peace with Chili was ratified by tho Constituent Assembly ..."

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