unˈratified, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. 500 Some therefore haue imagined, that such Instruments might happily then be mentioned and drawne, and yet die vnratified, though the copies stand recorded. 1652 Row Let. in Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 538 Our Commissione of the Generall Assemblie..excommunicating most precious men transgressing unratified Acts. 1856 Froude Hist. Eng. II. 194 The parliament reviewed the Annates Act, which had been left unratified. 1887 Pall Mall G. 27 June 1/1 The Egyptian Convention is still unratified. |