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homologate, v. Chiefly Sc.|həʊˈmɒləgeɪt|
[f. med.L. homologāre (1268 in Du Cange), after Gr. ὁµολογεῖν to confess, acknowledge + -ate3. Cf. F. homologuer (1539 in H. Estienne).]
1. trans. To express agreement with or approval of; to assent to, acknowledge; to countenance; to ratify, confirm.
1644Bp. Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings viii. 92 Saint Paul homologates this doctrine. a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 347 To accuse a minister before a Bishop was an acknowledging his jurisdiction..or, to use a hard word much in use among them, it was homologating his power. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose ii, Whilk I was altogether unwilling to homologate by my presence. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. ii. 105 Sometimes one body of patrons elected the teacher, the others afterwards homologating the appointment. 1879M. Pattison Milton xiii. 190 It could hardly but be that one or two of the incidents which Milton has supplied, the popular imagination has been unable to homologate.
b. spec. in Sc. Law. To ratify or render valid (a deed in itself defective or informal) by some subsequent act which expresses or implies assent to it.
a1765Erskine Inst. Law Scot. (1773) 465 A marriage contract, though defective in the legal solemnities, is held..to be homologated by the subsequent marriage of the parties. 1790in Dallas Amer. Law Rep. (1798) I. 366 The agreement being homologated, that is to say recorded and confirmed by the Court of Parliament, became obligatory.
2. intr. or absol. To agree, accord; to express agreement or assent.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Skiamachia Wks. (1711) 191 It did homologate both in the end and means with their commission, and the matter of their present deliberations. 1678R. Barclay Apol. Quakers v. §26. 189 The Apostle clearly homologates, or confesses to the sentence of Peter.
3. trans. To represent as agreeing (with something else); to identify. rare.
1794J. Hutton Philos. Light etc. 51 While it homologates this irradiated substance or modification of matter with that of light, it also excludes it from being any species of heat. |