- Authorizing
- 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.
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2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage. [1913 Webster]
3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage. [1913 Webster]
4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report. [1913 Webster]
A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
{To authorize one's self}, to rely for authority. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
