An act whereby something conditional or voidable is made sure and unavoidable, especially the possession of an estate.
An official indicator that things will happen as planned.
A ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18; considered a sacrament in some churches, including Catholicism, but not in most Protestant churches.
A verification that something is true or has happened.
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.