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authorized, ppl. a.|ˈɔːθəraɪzd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Possessed of authority, acknowledged as authoritative; thoroughly established; highly esteemed.
c1399Pol. Poems (1859) II. 13 Cassodre, whos writinge is auctorized, Seith. c1534Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (1846) 27 Pomponius Lætus..the moste authorised of late writers. 1784J. Barry Lect. Art vi. (1848) 209 The most authorised and surest observations which have fallen in my way. 1810Coleridge Friend (1865) 30 Received and authorized opinions.
2. Placed in (obs.) or endowed with authority.
1483Caxton G. de la Tour K vj, Knyghtes auctorysed and renommed. 1613Withers Abus. Stript i. vi, More vile In men authoriz'd, than in those that be Borne to a lower fortune or degree. 1648Milton Tenure Kings 235 The dragon gave to the beast his..authority; which beast so authorized most expound to be the tyrannical powers and kingdoms of the earth. Mod. The arrangement was made by your own authorized agent.
3. Legally or duly sanctioned or appointed. Authorized Version of the Bible: a popular appellation of the version of 1611. (The Great Bible 1540, and Bishops' Bible (after 1572), actually bore on their titles ‘authorized and appointed,’ but that of 1611 has never claimed to be ‘authorized.’) authorized capital (see quots.).
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xv. iv, A cyte rych and auctorysed in thy lynage. 1538Starkey Eng. 181 That by no prerogatyfe he usurpe upon the pepul any authorysyd tyranny. 1794Paley Evid. ii. ii. (1817) 24 Authorized assurances of the reality of a future existence. 1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 32 What is called our authorized version. 1879Ruskin Lett. Clergy 39 This piece of authorized mockery. 1911W. Thomson Dict. of Banking 39/2 Authorised capital, the capital of a company as authorised by its memorandum of association. 1917W. H. Walker Corporation Finance ii. 25 The state..limits the number of shares or the par value of the shares which the company may issue, and this limit is known as ‘authorized capital’. 1930Economist 5 Apr. 784/1 Resolutions are to be considered to increase the authorised share capital to {pstlg}8,000,000. |