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US
/ˈɹætəˌfaɪd/
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[ UK /ɹˈætɪfˌaɪd/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈætɪfˌaɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- formally approved and invested with legal authority
How To Use ratified In A Sentence
- The randomization schedule was centrally generated by the study's sponsor, stratified by site and by using a fixed block size of 4.
- Although the zebra long since retired to that savannah in the sky, and his owner herself is more than 30 years gone, the eccentric Winmill might be gratified to know that her phaetons and surreys, curricles and landaulets still command attention.
- Both originals (instrumenta) of the Concordat of Worms were read and ratified, and twenty-two disciplinary canons were promulgated, most of them reinforcements of previous conciliary decrees. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- Seeds were stratified at approximately 5°C in damp paper towels for 2-4 weeks and planted in flats.
- John was gratified to see the improvement in his mother's health since she had come home.
- There are now eight unratified ILO occupational and health conventions.
- None of these agreements has yet been ratified, though. Times, Sunday Times
- But if he thought the gloss had been taken off his status as a global celebrity he might have been gratified to learn that after his death the procession that followed his funeral bier was more than half a mile long.
- You would be gratified to learn that it hurts like hell and is the size of a volleyball.
- Instead of searching for a modern definition of culture, Nietzsche transposes an archaic ideal of culture (modeled after the stratified society of ancient Greece) onto modern society.