AUTHORIZE

v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

2.
v.

To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.

3.
v.

To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.

4.
v.

To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report. A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shak.

5.
v.

To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.

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