Definition of "exequatur" [ex•e•qua•tur]

• An official authorization given by a government to a consul etc. (noun)

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• "(Please not the exequatur is a French ordnance by which the courts gives a decision by a third party or an umpire executory force."
• "Three days later the British diplomat was notified that the exequatur of Moore had been revoked by the President and that henceforth all intercourse was prohibited between the people of Newport and the Africa."
• "From Rome he proceeded to Washington, and, with the United States _exequatur_, he entered Manila on November 18, 1902, and died there on June 26,"