What is the meaning of SANCTION. Phrases containing SANCTION
See meanings and uses of SANCTION!Slangs & AI meanings
Alphabet boys is British slang for the sanctioning bodies of boxing.
1. A parade command, meaning to assume a relaxed posture. 2. Announcement for the ship's crew to take a sanctioned break.
Sanction is military intelligence slang for permission to kill an individual.
To leave work early. Usually describes a sanctioned departure from work.
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v. t.
To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.
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To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
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To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.
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Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
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One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state.
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Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
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Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
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An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false.
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An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular author.
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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.
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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.
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Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
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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.
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That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
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To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
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Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions.
v. t.
To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.
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Of, pertaining to, or giving, sanction.
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