Word Finder - warrant

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Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.

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Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.

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a warrant of authenticity; a warrant for success

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An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.

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An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.

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A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.

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an arrest warrant issued by the court

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Short for warrant officer.

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A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.

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A defender, a protector.

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Underclay in a coal mine.

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• warren earth

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To protect, keep safe (from danger).

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To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).

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To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).

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To guarantee as being true; (colloquially) to believe strongly.

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That tree is going to fall, I’ll warrant.

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To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).

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I am warranted to search these premises fully.

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To justify; to give grounds for.

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Circumstances arose that warranted the use of lethal force.

They find Scripture warrant for this belief in Matt.

If your Dad is feeling bad enough to warrant medical attention, he needs to see a doctor, not a nurse.

The judges of Amiens, however, pursued him with a warrant for his arrest, which took place in Brumaire of the year II.

Until he does something to warrant police action, I'd say he has every right to stay.

Agent Osborn, is there an outstanding warrant on him?

In some cases the exchanges are connected together directly; but when the volume of traffic is not sufficient to warrant the adoption of such a course connexions between two exchanges are made through junction centres to which both are connected.

I remembered a judge had tossed out a search warrant obtained only on the basis of our tip.

No judge would sign a search warrant on the place where he lived in California either.

They believe that an experience of more than 250 years gives ample warrant for the belief that Christ did not command them as a perpetual outward ordinance; on the contrary, they hold that it was alien to His method to lay down minute, outward rules for all time, but that He enunciated principles which His Church should, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, apply to the varying needs of the day.

The columns vary somewhat in diameter (more than even the difference caused by fluting would warrant) and three different types of capital are noticeable.

He signed the death warrant.

After the fall of Struensee (the warrant for whose arrest he signed with indifference), for the last six-and-twenty years of his reign, he was only nominally king.

We do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of such information.

He cautioned, looking far more serious than the situation to warrant.

In fact, after the flight of the king and the subsequent suppression of the riots, a warrant was issued for his arrest; and he had barely time to escape to Weimar, where Liszt was at that moment engaged in preparing Tannhauser for performance, before the storm burst upon him with alarming violence.

You also warrant that any " moral rights " in posted materials have been irrevocably waived by the appropriate authors.

The measure is akin to an arrest warrant rather than a court hearing, so the Minister 's argument is somewhat specious.

Although Mexico is usually described as a nonmanufacturing country, its industrial development under President Porfirio Diaz will warrant some modification of this characterization.

The resemblance, however, is not sufficiently close to warrant the deduction that either the Gospel of the Egyptians or the Gospel from which the citation in 2 Clement is taken (if these two are distinct) is the source from which our fragment is derived.

They established the rule that no official should put in execution any royal warrant " against the statutes and common form of law."

About this week must have occurred the interview in the garden at the Douglas's house of Whittingehame, between Morton, Bothwell and Lethington, when Morton refused to be active in Darnley's murder, unless he had a written warrant from the queen.

Traquhair, as royal commissioner, prorogued parliament; negotiations with the king in London had no result; and in 1640 the prorogation was contemned, and though opposed by Montrose, the parliament constituted itself, with no royal warrant.

Especially, induction to universals is the warrant and measure of deduction from universals.

The kind of warrant that intelligence can give to specific principles falls short of infallibility.

There is too much textual warrant for this interpretation of Kant's meaning.

It must be observed, however, that the agreement is rather more perfect than the comparative roughness of the method would appear to warrant.

At the peace in 1815, however, only four were spared, namely, Frankfort, Bremen, Hamburg and Lubeck, these being practically the only ones still in a sufficiently flourishing and economically independent position to warrant such preferential treatment.

It was a matter of course that saints' days and church festivals were abolished as having no warrant in Scripture; Sunday alone remained, as the principal day of preaching.

Some years previously (perhaps about 1594), he had begun to be employed by her in crown affairs, and he gradually acquired the standing of one of the learned counsel, though he had no commission or warrant, and received no salary.

In fact, while the king confirmed in their situations those who had held crown offices under Elizabeth, Bacon, not holding his post by warrant, was practically omitted.

In several cases entire "Separate" churches reached the conviction that the baptism of infants was not only without Scriptural warrant but was a chief corner-stone of state-churchism, and transformed themselves into Baptist churches.

The first Bela, son of Beor, is often identified with Balaam, but the traditions of the Exodus are not precise enough to warrant the assumption that the seer was the king of a hostile land in Num.

Lake San Martin lies in a crooked deeply cut passage through the Andes, and the divide between its southern extremity (Laguna Tar) and Lake Viedma, which discharges through the Santa Cruz river into the Atlantic, is so slight as to warrant the hypothesis that this was once a strait between the two oceans.

Whenever the trade of southern Bolivia becomes important enough to warrant the expense of opening a navigable channel in the Pilcomayo, direct river communication with Buenos Aires and Montevideo will be possible.

Claiming jurisdiction over New Jersey by the terms of his commission, he issued a proclamation in March 1680 ordering Philip Carteret and his " pretended " officers to cease exercising jurisdiction within the duke's dominions unless he could show warrant.

Enraged at this defeat, Gilpin's enemies laid their complaint before Bonner, bishop of London, who secured a royal warrant for his apprehension.

But we must also grant that those from whom the " written " Hebrew text proceeds allowed themselves to fill up and to repeat without any sufficient warrant.

But there is no warrant for restricting the term to any special mode of approaching the problems indicated; and as these form the central subject of metaphysical inquiry, no valid distinction can be drawn between natural theology and general metaphysics.

It gave rise to a literary controversy, however, of great bitterness and violence, the author having ventured without warrant to claim for it an historical character, appealing to an imaginary "manuscript in Florence."

Oliver Cromwell spent some days here on his way to Ireland, and his original warrant to the mayor and council for the demolition of the castle is still preserved in the council chamber.

But the facts do not warrant this opinion.

The children of the sovereign other than his eldest son, though by courtesy " princes " and " princesses, " need a royal warrant to raise them de jure above the common herd; and even then, though they be dubbed " Royal Highness " in their cradles, they remain " commoners " till raised to the peerage.

Settled labour, the warrant of real wealth, was unacceptable to those who lived by promoting its insecurity.

In one of these attempts, the affair at Belfort, Buchez was gravely compromised, although the jury which tried him did not find the evidence sufficient to warrant his condemnation.

All that it could do would be to warrant a cause of some sort, but not this or that reality as the cause.

This inquest was made by the writ Quo Warranto, by which each landholder was invited to show the charter or warrant in which his claims rested.

The increasing estrangement between him and the nation made him averse from the natural remedy of a parliament, and he reverted to the absolute practices of the middle ages, in order that he might strain them far beyond the warrant of precedent to levy a tax under the name of ship-money, first on the port towns and then on the whole of England.

Indeed, the evidences, so far as they have been examined, appear to warrant the conclusion that the region of the western Tian-shan, from Lake Issyk-kul southwards, was in great part the scene of probably five successive glacial periods, each being less severe than the period which immediately preceded it.

For his opposition in 1820 to a law by which any person might be arrested and detained on a warrant signed by three ministers, he was summoned before a court of assize, but acquitted.

In February 1792 an allusion in debate by Toler (afterwards earl of Norbury), the attorney-general, to Tandy's personal ugliness, provoked him into sending a challenge; this was treated by the House of Commons as a breach of privilege, and a Speaker's warrant was issued for his arrest, which however he managed to elude till its validity expired on the prorogation of parliament.