Crossword clues for warranted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warrant \War"rant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warranted; p. pr. & vb. n. Warranting.] [OE. waranten, OF. warantir, garantir, guarantir, garentir, garandir, F. garantir to warrant, fr. OF. warant, garant, guarant, a warrant, a protector, a defender, F. garant. [root]142. See Warrant, n.]
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To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.
That show I first my body to warrant.
--Chaucer.I'll warrant him from drowning.
--Shak.In a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I can not be.
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To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
True fortitude is seen in great exploits, That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides.
--Addison.How little while it is since he went forth out of his study, -- chewing a Hebrew text of Scripture in his mouth, I warrant.
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To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.
[My neck is] as smooth as silk, I warrant ye.
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(Law)
To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.
To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.
To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.
To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.
Wiktionary
1 authorized with a warrant. 2 deserved, necessary. v
(en-past of: warrant)
WordNet
adj. secured by written agreement [syn: bonded, guaranteed, secured]
Usage examples of "warranted".
President as Chairman of the Federal Power Commission was not warranted by its rules, and did not deprive the appointee of his title to the office.
The way I saw it, if prosecutors were doing their jobs and only asking for indictments that were warranted, grand jurors should be indicting all the cases given to them.
Apparently in the belief that the broad sweep of the war power warranted the creation of the Air Force, without a constitutional amendment, Congress took no action on this proposal.
Congress adopted a Joint Resolution directing the President to cause suit to be instituted for the cancellation of certain oil leases alleged to have been obtained from the Government by fraud, and to prosecute such other actions and proceedings, civil and criminal, as were warranted by the facts.
It is placing the opinion of an individual, or of two or three, above that of both branches of Congress, a doctrine which is not warranted by the Constitution, and will not, I hope, long have many advocates in this country.
State powers, and not warranted by the commerce clause, article I, section 8, clause 3.
It is no wonder, therefore, that in circumstances which would have warranted a much more romantic and wild undertaking, it should occur to him to serve as a volunteer in this expedition.
He questioned her strictly as to the grievous offence committed against her, and could discover nothing that warranted a procedure so fraught with disagreeable consequences.
Here is, in the first place, sir, your power of attorney, regularly warranted, sealed, and signed with your own hand.
But these conversations were merely started by way of entertainment, and never could have warranted a supposition of their leading to any serious result.
I am convinced that if Bonaparte had been left to himself he would have recalled me, and this conviction is warranted by the interval which elapsed between his determination to part with me and the formal announcement of my dismissal.
Not being warranted, however, to take this step at Altona, I employed a trusty agent to keep watch, and draw him into a quarrel the moment he should appear on the Hamburg side of a public walk which divides that city from Altona, and deliver him up to the nearest Hamburg guard-house.
As yet nothing warranted a doubt that Alexander would not abide by his word.
One of the circumstances which, at the commencement of the Hundred Days, most contributed to open the eyes of those who were yet dazzled by the past glory of Napoleon, was the assurance with which he declared that the Empress and his son would be restored to him, though nothing warranted that announcement.