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[Lat. veto I forbid; orig.=to leave in the old state (from the same root as vet us =old); hence to vote against change in.] *1. Rom. Antiq.: The power po e ed by the Tribunes of the People of interfering so as at once to put a stop to any measure which they deemed IMG:content-0488.png:[blocks in formation] by pronouncing the solemn word veto. 2. The power or right which one branch of the executive of a state has to negative the resolutions of another branch; the right of the executive branch of government of a state, as the king, presi dent, or governor, to reject the bills, measures, or resolutions of the other branches; also the act of exercising such right. In the United States the President may veto all measures pa ed by con gre , but after such right has been exercised, the rejected measures may be pa ed over the veto if carried by two-thirds of each house of congre . In Great Britain the right of veto belongs to the Crown, but has not been exercised since 1707. 3. The word whereby forbiddal was expre ed in certain political a emblies, where the official language was more or le Latin, and where a single voice on the negative side could prevent the pa ing of a resolution otherwise unanimous; the Liberum Veto, or Free Veto, of the Polish Diets being the most famous historical instance of it. ( Latham .) 4. Hence, any authoritative prohibition, refusal, negative, or interdict. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; Veto Act, s. vexation Scottish Church : An Act of the General A embly pa ed on May 27, 1834, by 184 to 138 votes. It provided that when a patron i ued a presentation to a parish in favor of a minister or probationer, the disapproval of the presentee by a majority of male heads of families being communicants, should be deemed sufficient ground for his rejection, it being enacted that no objection should be valid unle the person making it was prepared to state before the Presbytery that he was not actuated by factious or malicious motives, but solely by a conscientious regard to the spiritual interests of himself or the congregation. The pa ing of this Act was one of causes the Disruption (q. v.). vē tō, v. t. [VETO, 8.] To put a veto on; to prohibit, to forbid, to interdict, to negative. ve-to-Ist, s. [Eng. veto: -ist.] One who exercises the right of veto; one who supports the use of the veto. *vetoyn, 8. [BETONY.] vět-tu-ra, s . [Ital., from Lat. vectura =a bearing, a conveyance; prop. fem. sing. of vecturus , fut. par. of veho to carry; Fr. voiture.] An Italian four-wheeled carriage. vět-tu-ri-nō ( pl. vět-tu-rî-nî), s. [Italian.] [VETTURA.] One who lends carriages for hire; one who drives a vettura or carriage. Also applied to the conveyance. "The road bears the slow diligence or lagging vetturino by the shallow Rhine." -Thackeray: Roundabout Papers; On a Lazy Idle Boy. *vě-tůst, a . [Lat. vetustus , an extension of vet us =old.] Old, ancient. věx, *vex-en, v . t . & i . [Fr. vexer =to vex, from Lat. vexo =to vex, lit.=to keep on carrying or moving a thing about; an intensive form of veho (pa, to vex i ) = to carry; Sp. & Port. vexar ; Ital. ve are .] A. Transitive : *1. To to about; to to into waves; to agitate. ( Milton : P. L., i. 306.) *2. To to or throw to and fro, or up and down; hence, to twist or weave. "Some English wool, vex'd in a Belgian loom." Dryden: Annus Mirabilis, covii. *3. To cause to be to ed or thrown about; to hara . "For I had purpos'd yet with many a storm To vex Uly es, ere he reach'd his home." Cowper: Homer's Ody ey, xiii. 4. To cause trouble, grief, or pain to; to plague, to torment. "The wicked spirites wer sore vexed , & could not abide the diuine power."- Udall : Matt . viii. 5. To make sorrowful; to grieve, to afflict, to distre . "A sight to vex the father's soul withal." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, v. 1. 6. To make angry by little provocations; to cause slight anger or annoyance to; to annoy, to tease, to fret, to irritate. "Stay'st thou to vex me here?" Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen, iv. 4. *B. In trans.: To be annoyed, angry, or provoked; to fret; to be irritated or teased. "We vex and complain." -Killing beck. For the difference between to vex and to displease, see DISPLEASE. *věx'-a-ble, adj . [Eng. vex ; -able .] Capable of being vexed; liable to be vexed. ( Southey .)