Authorize
['ɔθəraɪz]
Definition
(verb.) grant authorization or clearance for; 'Clear the manuscript for publication'; 'The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
(v. t.) To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
(v. t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
(v. t.) To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
(v. t.) To justify; to furnish a ground for.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Sanction, justify, warrant, legalize, support by authority.[2]. Empower, commission, permit, allow, give permission to, give leave to, give authority to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EMPOWER]
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Examples
- While it did not authorize rebellion it made no provision against it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I cannot authorize you to say any such thing to Mr Headstone: I cannot allow you to say any such thing to Mr Headstone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I authorize you now to break all this to the family in any way you think best. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Indeed Scott did not deem it important to hold anything beyond the Rio Grande, and authorized Taylor to fall back to that line if he chose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was authorized to do as I though best for the accomplishment of the great object in view. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If any portion of your force, especially your cavalry, is needed back in your Department, you are authorized to send it back. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Army chaplains were authorized to occupy the pulpit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For he does not become acquainted with the traits that mark off opinion and assent from authorized conviction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- PRIOR to this, no complete, authentic, and authorized record of the work of Mr. Edison, during an active life, has been given to the world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As I have stated, the legislature authorized the governor to accept the services of ten additional regiments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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