ratihabition

English

Etymology

From Latin ratihabitio, from ratus (“fixed, valid”) + habere (“to hold”).

Noun

ratihabition (countable and uncountable, plural ratihabitions)

1. (obsolete) confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:

     For in , matters criminal , ratihabition or approving of the act does always make the approver guilty

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ratihabition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)