Verb:

द्दढ करना, विशोधन करना, स्थिर करना, पुष्टि करना,

ratify's Usage Examples:

In 1866, 1867 and 1869, respectively, the legislature refused to ratify the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Federal constitution.

law Desiderius, the last Lombard king, in 774, and when he received the circlet of the empire from Leo Ill, at Rome ~fl 800, he did but complete and ratify the compact offered to his grandfather, Charles Martel, by Gregory III.

He abdicated in 1859 and left the country, after refusing to ratify the treaty with Peru, by which the defender of Guayaquil had obtained the raising of the siege.

In the earlier days of the agitation, he challenged the hostility which often mobbed the anti-slavery gatherings; in the later days he consulted with the political leaders, inspiring the patriotism of the North, and sedulously setting himself to create a public opinion which should confirm and ratify the emancipation proclamation whenever the president should issue it.

not to ratify his election, and even meditated going into hiding; but, "while he was preparing for flight and concealment, he was seized and carried off and dragged to the basilica of St Peter," and there consecrated bishop, on the 3rd of September 590.

If, on attaining his majority, the king refused to ratify these promises, his subjects were ipso facto absolved from their obedience.

As the Federalists were all opposed to the Ausgleich, it was clear that a Reichsrath chosen in these circumstances would refuse to ratify it, and this was probably Belcredi's intention.

It was awarded to Mithradates, but the senate refused to ratify the bargain on the ground of bribery.

In 1788, Samuel Adams was a member of the Massachusetts convention to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

The president of Nicaragua adhered to this treaty, but the National Congress refused to ratify it.

Synonyms:

validate, formalize, indorse, endorse, sign, formalise,

Antonyms:

positiveness, negativity, negativeness, fire, invalidate,