authorizedadj.

1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xv. iv Þou [sc. Eneas] shalt found a cyte rych & auctorysed [Fr. 1484 auctorisié, 1493 auctorisée] in þy lynage.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 120 That by no prerogatyfe he usurpe apon the pepul any such authorysyd tyranny.

1582 in Bible (Rheims) Pref. to Rdr. sig. civ^v Their most authorised English Bibles leaue our (Catholike) in the title of S. Iames Epistle.

1608 T. James Apol. Wickliffe 20 Their Bibles authorized are..contrarious, and contradictorious the one vnto the other.

1750 P. Shaw Reflector xv. 125 Authorized Histories contain little more than Encomium.., of which the authorizing Imprimatur is an almost infallible Sign.

1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. ii. 25 Authorised assurances of the reality of a future existence.

1854 Ecclesiologist 15 341 He..talks of the ‘communion-table’ as if this were a correct or authorized term.

1879 J. Ruskin Lett. to Clergy 39 This piece of authorized mockery.

1930 Economist 5 Apr. 784/1 Resolutions are to be considered to increase the authorised share capital to £8,000,000.

1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago Confidential i. iii. 31 That parallelogram was the official, recognized, authorized habitat of 50,000 prostitutes.

1994 Maclean's 31 Oct. 40/1 An authorized biography of Charles, Prince of Wales.

2011 Independent 28 Apr. 21/5 Sony only allows authorised products to be used over the service.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxiiii. 152 Knyghtes auctorysed and renommed.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 32 All such partes of the worde of God..no lesse vnsoundly taught and interpreted by all authorized English Pastors, then by Antichristes factors themselues.

1617 G. Wither Abuses Stript (rev. ed.) i. vi. 72 More vile In men Authoriz'd, than in those that be Borne to a lower fortune or degree.

1655 R. Baxter Quakers Catech. 21 The Ordination of authorized Church-Officers.

1752 Life Nicholas Mooney 10 When I came ashore, my tea was seiz'd, tho' not by an authoriz'd officer.

1844 London Med. Gaz. 8 Nov. 203/2 The Universities will create bachelors of medicine at 22, upon which they may register as authorized practitioners.

1898 A. E. T. Watson Turf 242 (heading) Entries shall be made in writing, signed by the owner of the horse or his authorised agent.

1922 E. P. Oppenheim Great Prince Shan iv. 38 He is one of the authorised consuls.

1973 L. B. Pascoe Jean Gerson v. 154 The parish priest..is..the duly authorized administrator of sacraments with regard to those under his jurisdiction.

2011 J. Lynch Consent to Treatm. xi. 100 A local authority or other authorised person..acquires parental responsibility.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 47 (MED) He gave furst eerthely possessions, which othir auctorised [Fr. auctorisiez] doctours gave him therfor a grette lawde.

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 27 Pomponius Lætus..the moste authorised of late writers.

1614 R. Brathwait Schollers Medley 34 One of an excellent wit, ripe vnderstanding, and labourious withall, to finde out the ancient Manuscripts, and Records of authorized Histories.

1663 A. O. Faber Relation of Some Notable Cures 4 Nevertheless the most authorized Philosophers do afford its cure by their experience.

1763 Z. Brooke Several Disc. iv. 103 Those authorized and respectable interpreters of the nature of Man and of the will of Heaven [sc. the Sacred Writers].

a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 209 The most authorised and surest observations which have fallen in my way.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 10 Aug. 47 Received and authorized opinions.

1898 Amer. Eccl. Rev. Aug. 119 Supported by the most authorized witnesses of the ancient faith.

1950 M. Boll & J. Reinhart in M. Farber Philos. Thought in France & U.S. i. 189 Poincaré,who,..was then the most authorized person to judge this new science in the making.

2009 Y. Lotan tr. S. Sand Invention Jewish People (2010) iv. 208 The authorized scholars have failed to provide a reasonable explanation for the existence of such a large Jewish community in Spain.

1825 Caledonian Mercury 1 Dec. 1/2 An outlay of L.41,000 above the authorised capital of the Company.

1917 W. 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’.

1994 Accountancy Sept. 44/1 In Jersey the tax is known as capital duty and is chargeable at the rate of 0.5% of authorised capital.

1699 tr. L. E. Du Pin Compl. Hist. Canon I. ii. 59 They were oblig'd to cite them [sc. passages of scripture] according to a common and authorized Version [sc. the Septuagint].]

1755 W. Hodges Christian Plan (ed. 2) 134 The authorized version, now in use, was made under the reign of James 1st.

1814 Missionary Reg. Sept. 356 The propagation of the Holy Scriptures, according to the Authorised Version.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 32 What is called our authorized version.

1957 Changing Times July 25/1 The King James Version, or Authorized Version, is probably the text most familiar to the largest number of English-speaking people.

2011 Church Times 4 Mar. 25/2 Echoes of the Authorised Version can be heard throughout his translation.