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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Authorize \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. | |
