countersign

It was to Mr. Badinter that Mr. Mitterrand turned in 1984 to countersign, in strict secrecy, the document in which the president recognized Mazarine Pingeot, his daughter from an adulterous relationship.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

A pub licensee was also found to countersign the application.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2023

Someone else would be paid to countersign the application.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021

"Flash" was our code word, and countersign was "Thunder."

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Me Know You,’Johnny repeated this countersign and took his place behind Mr. Revere.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Howdy"* was the greeting, "Yippee" and "Yowee" were countersigns all the week.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'd better speak to him on the matter of countersigns."

From Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott

It was his duty to record the paroles and countersigns, the various orders for the next day, and to see that they were attended to.

From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan

At last the duke realized that he was betrayed, and that all was lost, and so he submitted to the inevitable, and gave the Pope the countersigns he craved.

From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini

Judit Varga, who was minister of justice at the time of the pardon, countersigned the clemency decision.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024

Frank Miller’s "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts an aged, bloated, broken Bruce Wayne, lonely and perennially tormented not only by the murder he witnessed as a child but by the countless others he’s countersigned since.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018

However, Mr Wheat did strongly recommend that any pardon not personally autographed by the president be countersigned by the attorney general.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2017

Despite the institute's evident professionalism, its anonymity and mysteriousness made reviewers skittish—even after they had received countersigned contracts.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2012

This was countersigned by General Gilmore, who took Hunter’s place as commander of the Department of the South.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

The final defendant, Kevin Crinnion, 73, is alleged to have helped with passport applications, including countersigning documents.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2023

Walter, who went to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance, started out with his father in the bookkeeper's office, countersigning checks so that he could see where the money went.

From Time Magazine Archive

This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered.

From Time Magazine Archive

He relates his difficulties with Pedro Alvarez over the countersigning of Sangley licenses.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

Under this head also fall the duties of countersigning proclamations and important commissions of the President and of attaching thereto the great seal.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner