Both Uses
ratify
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- That can I.
At least the whisper goes so: our last king,
Whose image even but now appeared to us,
Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
Thereto pricked on by a most emulate pride,
Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet
(For so this side of our known world esteemed him)
Did slay this Fortinbras, who by a sealed compact,
Well ratified by law and heraldry,
Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands
Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror.†p. 13.9 *ratified = approved - The rabble call him "lord,"
And, as the world were now but to begin,
Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
The ratifiers and props of every word,
They cry "Choose we, Laertes shall be king!"†p. 211.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(ratify) to approve -- typically the formal approval of an agreement by an organization
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)