ratihabition

English

Etymology

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

Noun

ratihabition (countable and uncountable, plural ratihabitions)

1. (obsolete, law) confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (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

References

• “ratihabition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.