VE'TO, noun [Latin veto I forbid.] A forbidding; prohibition; or the right of forbidding; applied to the right of a king or other magistrate or officer to withhold his assent to the enactment of a law, or the passing of a decree. Thus the king of Great Britain has a veto upon every act of parliament; he sometimes prevents the passing of a law by his vet.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.