Ratify vs Ramify - What's the difference?
ratify | ramify |
To give formal consent to; make officially valid.
To divide into branches or subdivisions.
* 1893 , Henry Morris, Human Anatomy , page 648
(figuratively) To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.
* 2003 , Wim van Binsbergen, Intercultural Encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality , page 285
As verbs the difference between ratify and ramify
is that ratify is to give formal consent to; make officially valid while ramify is to divide into branches or subdivisions.ratify
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(en-verb)Synonyms
* (give formal consent to): approveramify
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- The cortical, hemispheral or superficial veins ramify on the surface of the brain and return the blood from the cortical substance into the venous sinuses.
- to ramify an art, subject, scheme .
- My point here is that the field within which such determination takes place is not bounded to constitute a single discipline, a single academic elite, a single language domain, a single culture, a single historical period, but that that field ramifies out so as to encompass, ultimately, the entire history of the whole of humankind.