SANCTIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sanctioned mean? 

• SANCTIONED (adjective)
  The adjective SANCTIONED has 3 senses:

1. conforming to orthodox or recognized rules

2. formally approved and invested with legal authority

3. established by authority; given authoritative approval

  Familiarity information: SANCTIONED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANCTIONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conforming to orthodox or recognized rules

Synonyms:

canonic; canonical; sanctioned

Context example:

the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing

Similar:

orthodox (adhering to what is commonly accepted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Formally approved and invested with legal authority

Synonyms:

ratified; sanctioned

Similar:

legal (established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Established by authority; given authoritative approval

Synonyms:

approved; sanctioned

Context example:

a list of approved candidates

Similar:

authorised; authorized (endowed with authority)

 Context examples 

Wolf that he was, and unprecedented as it was, the gods had sanctioned his presence, and they, the dogs of the gods, could only recognise this sanction.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sanctioned by established authority; having authority or ascendancy or influence; of recognized authority or excellence..

(Authoritative, NCI Thesaurus)

Kipchoge also set the current official world record for a sanctioned race, of 2 hours 1 minute 39 seconds, last year in Berlin, Germany.

(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)

The authors propose that this method could be used by local authorities, so fishermen who catch and commercialize endangered species are sanctioned.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

You are uniformly charming! cried he, with an air of awkward gallantry; and I am persuaded that when sanctioned by the express authority of both your excellent parents, my proposals will not fail of being acceptable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A very short visit to Mrs. Allen, in which Henry talked at random, without sense or connection, and Catherine, rapt in the contemplation of her own unutterable happiness, scarcely opened her lips, dismissed them to the ecstasies of another tete-a-tete; and before it was suffered to close, she was enabled to judge how far he was sanctioned by parental authority in his present application.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

'After mentioning the likelihood of this marriage to her ladyship last night, she immediately, with her usual condescension, expressed what she felt on the occasion; when it became apparent, that on the score of some family objections on the part of my cousin, she would never give her consent to what she termed so disgraceful a match. I thought it my duty to give the speediest intelligence of this to my cousin, that she and her noble admirer may be aware of what they are about, and not run hastily into a marriage which has not been properly sanctioned.'

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)