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Definitions for: Authorize [v] grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
[v] give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers"
Webster (1913) Definition: Au"thor*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Authorized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Authorizing.] [OE. autorize, F. autoriser, fr.
LL. auctorizare, authorisare. See Author.]
1. 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. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as,
to authorize a marriage.
3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion;
to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
4. 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. To justify; to furnish a ground for. --Locke.
To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. [Obs.]
Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other
histories. --Sir P.
Sidney.
Synonyms: authorise, authorise, clear, empower, pass
See Also: allow, appoint, approbate, approve, certificate, certify, charge, commission, countenance, declare, entitle, formalise, formalize, let, licence, license, O.K., okay, permit, sanction, sanction, validate
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