homologatev.
/hɒˈmɒləɡeɪt/, /həˈmɒləɡeɪt/, U.S. /hoʊˈmɑləˌɡeɪt/, /həˈmɑləˌɡeɪt/, Scottish English /hɔˈmɔləɡet/, /həˈmɔləɡet/ Chiefly Scottish.
1.
a. transitive. To express agreement with or approval of; to assent to, acknowledge; to countenance; to ratify, confirm.
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the mind > language > statement > assent > [verb (transitive)]
cordc1380
to give handsa1425
to fall to ——a1450
agree1472
to go into ——1540
astipulate1548
subscribe1560
seal1579
suffragate1606
give1621
assent1637
homologate1644
to take up with1673
affirmative1775
chorus1836
yea-say1887
yes1915
1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas viii. 92 Saint Paul homologates this doctrine.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 247 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.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 186 Whilk I was altogether unwilling to homologate by my presence.
1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. ii. 105 Sometimes one body of patrons elected the teacher, the others afterwards homologating the appointment.
1879 M. 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 Scots Law. To ratify or render valid (a deed in itself defective or informal) by some subsequent act which expresses or implies assent to it.
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society > law > rule of law > [verb (transitive)] > validate or ratify
confirmc1290
affirma1325
authorize1431
corrobore1485
stable1501–2
find1512
corroborate1530
authenticate1555
warrant1598
validatea1648
convalidate1656
execute1737
enforce1756
homologatea1765
sanction1778
formalize1855
a1765 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) 465 A marriage contract, though defective in the legal solemnities, is held..to be homologated by the subsequent marriage of the parties.
1790 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 1 366 The agreement..being homologated, that is to say, recorded and confirmed by the Court of Parliament,..became..obligatory.
2. intransitive or absol. To agree, accord; to express agreement or assent.
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the mind > language > statement > assent > [verb (intransitive)]
ensentc1290
accordc1300
to say yesa1400
senta1400
to say yeac1425
condescend1477
subscribe1531
accede1534
to take a person at his (also her) word1535
homologatea1649
to close with1654
to set one's seal1659
yes1820
yea-say1876
a1649 W. Drummond Skiamachia in Wks. (1711) 191 It did homologate both in the End and Means with their Commission, and the Matter of their present Deliberations.
1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity v. §26. 189 The Apostle clearly homologates, or confesses to the sentence of Peter.
3. transitive. To represent as agreeing (with something else); to identify. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > make identical [verb (transitive)]
co-essence1594
identify1626
homologate1794
1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 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.
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