homologate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to approve; confirm or ratify.
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to register (a specific make of automobile in general production) so as to make it eligible for international racing competition.
verb
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Scots law to approve or ratify (a deed or contract, esp one that is defective)
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law to confirm (a proceeding, etc)
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to recognize (a particular type of car or car component) as a production model or component rather than a prototype, as in making it eligible for a motor race
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Etymology
Origin of homologate
1635–45; < Medieval Latin homologātus (past participle of homologāre < Greek homologeîn to agree to, allow); see -ate 1
Example Sentences
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We can't homologate a lightweight chassis and bring it because it is $2m we would be over the cap.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2022
Indeed, Paris learned the lesson of power so well, that it became her settled conviction that what she did to-day France would homologate to-morrow.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
To grant the one, then, and refuse the other, is, in effect, to homologate or acknowledge the constitution, and not to acknowledge it, at the same time, which is a glaring absurdity.
From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by Presbytery, The Reformed
It is not a mere resemblance that should homologate different things; there should be a specific character in every thing that is to be generalised.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James
She tapped with a tiny toe on the pebbles, affecting a choler the twinkle in her eyes did not homologate.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
Garella would also become Project Manager for the company’s associated racing program, designing the P4/5 Competizione, which was built on a Ferrari F430 Scuderia and homologated to race in the Nurburgring 24 Hours.
From The Verge ● Apr. 6, 2016
It is homologated with the primitive mountains, in the solidity of its substance and in the position of its strata; with the tertiary species, again, in its containing marks of organised bodies.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James
Israel, at Sinai, vowed to present the first-born of their males and their first-fruits to the Lord; and that vow they homologated when they Covenanted again.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John
He homologated the protests which his brother laid on the table of the assembly after being rebuked for his synod sermon, but he did not formally withdraw from the establishment till 1737.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
The congress not only homologated his proposals, but carried them further, by abolishing the episcopal hierarchy and assigning its revenues to the national exchequer, for education.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
But "the homologating of new suppliers for specific components and the build-up of production would take several months", while stocks of Nexperia chips are predicted to last only a few weeks, it added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
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