What is the meaning of SANCTION. Phrases containing SANCTION
See meanings and uses of SANCTION!Slangs & AI meanings
Sanction is military intelligence slang for permission to kill an individual.
To leave work early. Usually describes a sanctioned departure from work.
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.
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n.
Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions.
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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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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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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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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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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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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To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
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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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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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v. t.
To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.
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Of, pertaining to, or giving, sanction.
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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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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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Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
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One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state.
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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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v. t.
To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
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