Word Meanings - VALIDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to. The chamber of deputies . . . refusing to validate at once the election of an official candidate. London Spectator.

Related words: (words related to VALIDATE)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• CANDIDATESHIP
  Candidacy.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• REFUSABLE
  Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• CONFIRMEDLY
  With confirmation.
• LONDONIZE
  To impart to a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
• LEGALIZE
  To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
• LONDON
  The capital city of England. London paste , a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial
• CONFIRMEE
  One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
• LONDONER
  A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
• CHAMBERMAID
  1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• INCHAMBER
  To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
• PRELECTION
  A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.
• DEFORCE
  To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• ILLEGAL
  Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• INVALIDE
  See N