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To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.

The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.

Authentically.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Hammond.

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Relating to autogenesis; self-generated.

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.

An autohypnotic person.

Self-moving; moving automatically.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

Having an inherent power of action or motion. Nothing can be said to be automatic. Sir H. Davy.

In an automatic manner.

Of or pertaining to autoplasty.

Acting or moving automatically by means of compressed air.

Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

By means of ocular view, or one's own observation. Sir T. Browne.

Extemporary; offhand. [R.] Dean Martin.