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.
An act whereby something conditional or voidable is made sure and unavoidable, especially the possession of an estate.
To use a veto against.
An invocation of that right.
A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.