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▪ I. authenticate, v.|ɔːˈθɛntɪkeɪt|
[f. med.L. authenticā-re, authenticāt-, to make authentic, f. authentic-us; also in It. autenticare, Sp. autenticar, Fr. authentiquer.]
To make or prove authentic.
1. trans. and refl. To invest (a thing) with authority; to render authoritative.
a1733North Lives II. 339 They want antiquity to authenticate their ceremonies. 1768Blackstone Comm. I. 32 The Clementine constitutions..were..authenticated in 1317 by..John XXII. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. iv. (1867) 80 Christianity authenticates the voice of conscience.
2. To give legal validity to; to render valid, establish the validity of.
1653Nissena 64 An Order from his Majesty, authenticated and sealed by his Kingly Seal. 1768Blackstone Comm. I. 323 A tax..of service to the public in general, by authenticating instruments. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India i. ii. (1840) I. 63 They recommended, as the best mode of authenticating the privilege, that it should be incorporated in a fresh renewal of their charter.
3. To establish the title to credibility and acceptance:
a. of a statement, or
b. of a reputed fact.
a.1654Cokayne Dianea i. 15 Oleandro replied, he..could authenticate his Maximes by examples. 1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 135 To authenticate and make good his Hypothesis. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith i. i. §2. 63 If the conclusion..is not authenticated by the real occurrence.
b.1662H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar ii. 13 Those ways, which are authenticated by Physicians. 1778Robertson Hist. Amer. II. v. 60 Were not all the circumstances of this extraordinary transaction authenticated by the most unquestionable evidence. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 298 A room, which tradition authenticated to have been the same.
4. To establish the claims of (anything) to a particular character or authorship; to establish the genuineness of; to certify the authorship of.
1852Ld. Cockburn Jeffrey I. 285 We went through the whole work, authenticating all his papers. 1865Grote Plato I. iv. 155 Aristophanes authenticates..not merely the Leges, but also the Epinomis, and the Epistolæ.
b. with subord. clause.
1860Pusey Min. Proph. 535 The usual formula..with which the prophets authenticated, that they spake not of themselves, but by the Spirit of God.
▪ II. † auˈthenticate, ppl. a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. authenticāt-us: see prec.]
= authenticated.
1572Schole House Wom. 862 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 138 The trueth is knowen, as in this case, By holy writ autenticate. |