Definitions for the word "warrant" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
That which attests or proves; a voucher.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Right; legality; allowance.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
1 thing that authorizes an action. 2 a written authorization, money voucher, etc. B written authorization allowing police to search premises, arrest a suspect, etc. 3 certificate of service rank held by a warrant-officer. v. 1 serve as a warrant for; justify. 2 guarantee or attest to esp. The genuineness of. i (or i''ll) warrant i am certain; no doubt. [french warant, from germanic]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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