Word Meanings - WARRANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

protector, F. garant, originally a p. pr. pf German origin, fr. OHG. weren to grant, warrant, G. gewähren; akin to OFries. wera. Cf. 1. That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act,

Additional info about word: WARRANT

protector, F. garant, originally a p. pr. pf German origin, fr. OHG. weren to grant, warrant, G. gewähren; akin to OFries. wera. Cf. 1. That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority. Specifically: -- A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing. A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice. An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below. 2. That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security. I give thee warrant of thy place. Shak. His worth is warrant for his welcome hither. Shak. 3. That which attests or proves; a voucher. 4. Right; legality; allowance. Shak. Bench warrant. See in the Vocabulary. -- Dock warrant , a customhouse license or authority. -- General warrant. See under General. -- Land warrant. See under Land. -- Search warrant. See under Search, n. -- Warrant of attorney , written authority given by one person to another empowering him to transact business for him; specifically, written authority given by a client to his attorney to appear for him in court, and to suffer judgment to pass against him by confession in favor of some specified person. Bouvier. -- Warrant officer, a noncommissioned officer, as a sergeant, corporal, bandmaster, etc., in the army, or a quartermaster, gunner, boatswain, etc., in the navy. -- Warrant to sue and defend. A special warrant from the crown, authorizing a party to appoint an attorney to sue or defend for him. A special authority given by a party to his attorney to commence a suit, or to appear and defend a suit in his behalf. This warrant is now disused. Burrill.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WARRANT)

• Credential
• or Credentials
• Missive
• diploma
• title
• testament
• seal
• warrant
• letter
• vouchers
• certificates
• testimonials
• Empower
• Enable
• commission
• encourage
• qualify
• delegate
• sanction
• direct
• authorize
• Insure
• Provide
• stabilitate
• guarantee
• secure
• Pledge
• Security
• hostage
• surety
• pawn
• earnest
• Precedent
• Instance
• example
• authority
• antecedent
• pattern

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WARRANT)

• Redeem
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to WARRANT)

• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• INSTANCE
  1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. The instances that second marriage
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• DIPLOMATIC
  A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• CREDENTIAL
  Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting. Their credential letters on both sides. Camden.
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIPLOMAT; DIPLOMATE
  A diplomatist.
• PROVIDENCE
  A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• SUBDELEGATE
  A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
• TENABLENESS
  See TENABILITY
• DISENABLE
  To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.