ratificate

present singular third person ratificates · participle present ratificating · participle past ratificated · past ratificated

1. nonstandardtransitivechiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo ratify.

   No. It doesn't grant anything to anybody until ratificated by specific countries and included into law system. Declaration for the first time in humankind created internationally recognized standards for human rights.

   2007 April 28, [Janusz] <janusz_w@hotmail.com>, “So Long, France.”, in rec.scuba (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026

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   To achieve this political unification each state has to delegate some of their rights to the EC [European Community] in Bruessel^([sic]) (i.e. making specific law etc.). And thats^([sic]) why the brits and danes had such problems in their parliament to ratificate the maastricht treaty. But as one can see, both did ratificate the treaty these days.^([sic])

   1993 May 21, Nik. Wiesel, “Does the Amiga have a future ?”, in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026

   Some teachers taught some variants which wasn´t^([sic]) in Go-Kyo. I remember a tecnique called Kumi-Nague. This tecnique^([sic]) was taught for longtime in my dojo. One day, both name and right arm work changed. Now, it was Koshi-Guruma. Kumi-Nague never was included in Go-Kyo, but Koshi-Guruma was since 1895 and was ratificated on 1920.

   2001 April 8, Jigotai, “Foot Sweep”, in japan.budo.judo (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026