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authorize, v.|ˈɔːθəraɪz|
Forms: 4 autorize, -yse, 4–5 -ise, 4–6 auctorize, -yse, -ise, 6 auctorish(e, -eise, authoriss, -ish, aucthorishe, 7 -ize, -ise, 6– authorise, -ize.
[a. F. autorise-r, in 14–16th c. commonly auctoriser, also in 15–16th c. authoriser, ad. med.L. auctōrīzāre, f. auctor author: see -ize. The phonetic history follows that of author n., auctorize being the usual form down to c 1575. In 16th c. accented aucˈtorise, which led to the form aucˈtorish after nourish, perish: see -ish2.]
I. To authorize a thing.
†1. To set up as authoritative; to acknowledge as possessing final decisiveness. Obs.
1401Pol. Poems (1859) II. 80 Thou autorisest ȝour pride aȝenes his holi werkes. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 509/2 To the end the word of God may be authorized, and men know that we must be heard. 1620Shelton Quix. III. xvii. 116 Let the Courtier..authorize his Prince's Court with Liveries.
†2. To give legal force to; to make legally valid.
1464Edw. IV in Paston Lett. 493 II. 165 Inacted and auctorised in the parlement next holden. 1567Drant Horace Epist. ii. i. G j, Tables..Deuysed and auctorished by well knowne Romanes ten. 1644Vind. Treat. Monarchy iv. 27 Being authoritative, they authorize the Instrument, and give him an unresistance. 1692Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 87 New Titles to Authorize a new Power.
3. To give formal approval to; to sanction, approve, countenance.
c1383Wyclif Sel. Wks. (1871) III. 326 Crist and alle his seyntis..autoriseden it. ― De Eccl. viii. ibid. 357 Whanne þe pope auansiþ a shrewe, he autorisiþ his shrewidnesse. 1567Drant Horace's Arte Poet. A iij, Who hath to iudge, autorish, reule, All maner speache at will. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxxv, Authorizing thy trespas with compare. 1749Chesterfield Lett. 211 II. 305 The Season in which Custom seems..to authorise civil and harmless Lies under the name of compliments. 1865Mill Liberty 15 The gentlest and most amiable of philosophers..authorised the persecution of Christianity.
b. Of things: To afford just ground for, justify.
1603Florio Montaigne (1634) 525 The issue doth often aucthorize a simple conduct. 1656Cowley Davideis iv. Wks. 1710 II. 460 If Human Strength might authorize a Boast. 1660Dryden Astræa Red. 178 Till some safe crisis authorise their skill. 1748Anson Voy. Introd., These reasons alone would authorize the insertion of those papers. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. i, More..than the coldness of the weather seemed to authorise.
†4. To vouch for the truth or reality of; to confirm by one's authority. Obs.
1393Gower Conf. III. 167 This I finde eke of recorde, Which the cronique hath auctorized. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. iii. i. 169 The more that a werke is wytnessed..the more it is auctorysed and more auctentyke. 1605Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 66 A womans story, at a Winters fire, Authoriz'd by her Grandam. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 75 Multiplying obscurities in nature, and authorising hidden qualities that are false.
II. To authorize a person.
5. To endow with authority, place in authority; to commission.
1494Fabyan v. xcvii. 71 After that he of this Realme was auctorysyd for kynge. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. iii. 17 Did manyfestly auctoryse his sonne. 1676Bullokar, Authorize, to put in authority, or give power unto. 1770Junius Lett. xli. 216 Will you..tell the world by what law..you were authorized? [See authorized.]
†b. To hold as an authority. Obs. rare.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 141 He had sic credens of the king, And wes with him auctoreist than so hie.
†c. To accredit. Obs. rare.
1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 536 Neither is the credite of such late writers—sufficient to authorise them for such.
†d. To patronize, countenance. Obs. rare.
1713Guardian No. 10 ⁋3 For this reason I shall authorise and support the gentleman.
†6. refl.
a. To claim authority for oneself; to plume oneself.
b. To found one's authority upon.
1581Sidney Def. Poesie (Arb.) 31 The Historian..loden with olde Mouse-eaten Records, authorising himselfe (for the most part) vpon other histories. a1586― (J.) Making herself an impudent suitor, authorizing herself very much, with making us see, that all favour and power depended upon her.
7. To give legal or formal warrant to (a person) to do something; to empower, permit authoritatively.
1571Wills & Invent. N.C. (1835) 353, I appoint and aucthorishe hym to call for and receyue..all suche debts. 1571Ld. Burleigh in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 200 II. 261 We will, & by warrant herof authoriss you to procede. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 249 To authorize any forreigne Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 148 His Majesty may authorize the governor to fix the time and place. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 551 A royal message authorising the Commons to elect another Speaker.
b. Of things: To give satisfactory ground to.
1794Sullivan View Nat. I, Nothing which can authorise us to suppose it formed in the sea. 1843Mill Logic iii. xxi. §3 Past experience of mortality authorizes us to infer both. |