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authenticadj.n. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French authentique; Latin authenticus. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman autentic, autentik, Anglo-Norman and Middle French autentike, autentique, Middle French auctentique, autenticque, auttentique, authentique, (rare) actentique, atentique, (Walloon, rare) atenticke (French authentique ) authoritative (1211 in Old French with reference to a thing (originally and frequently a legal document), last quarter of the 14th cent. with reference to a person), trustworthy, credible (c1323 with reference to a thing (chiefly a statement or text), 1451 with reference to a person), genuine (c1378), (of a person) legally or duly qualified (a1412), (in music) designating an ecclesiastical mode (a1630), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin authenticus (in post-classical Latin also auctenticus) (of documents) original (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also (of a person) genuine, true (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), authoritative (from 8th cent. (frequently from 12th cent.) in British sources), (in music) designating an ecclesiastical mode (9th cent.), legally valid (12th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek αὐθεντικός warranted, original, authoritative < αὐθεντία authority ( < ancient Greek αὐθέντης perpetrator (see authent n.) + -ία -ia suffix1) + -ικός -ic suffix. With the use as noun compare classical Latin authenticum (neuter) original document (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also denoting a musical mode (1517 in the passage translated in quot. 1609 at sense B. 4), post-classical Latin authentica (feminine; usually in plural, authenticae ), denoting a constitution supplementary to the Code of Justinian (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources; from 13th cent. in continental sources), Hellenistic Greek αὐθεντικόν (neuter) original copy, and also Old French, Middle French autentique , Middle French, French authentique collection of new laws published by the emperor Justinian (first half of the 13th cent.; from a1615 in plural), original copy of a document (end of the 13th cent.), authoritative book or document (a1350). Compare Old Occitan authentic , (Gascon, plural) autentixs (1373), Catalan autèntic (13th cent. as adjective, also as noun), Spanish auténtico (13th cent. as adjective, also as noun in sense ‘original copy’), Portuguese autêntico , adjective (first half of the 14th cent.; 13th cent. as †abtentico ), Italian autentico (end of the 13th cent. as adjective, a1308 as noun in sense B. 1, 1321 as noun in sense B. 3); also Dutch authentiek, adjective (1550 as authenticq), German Authentikum original document (1547 as authenticum, originally with Latin inflectional endings), authentisch, adjective (1575).Specific senses. In sense A. 7e after specific use of German eigentlich (1927 in M. Heidegger Sein u. Zeit). Compare slightly later authenticity n. 3d. In the following quot., the sense of autentyke and of the Middle French original autenticque are uncertain and disputed:1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos vii. sig. Ciijv To be closed & enuyronned wyth wallis autentyke [Fr. dautenticque muraille]. Various suggestions have been made for the sense of the English adjective in this passage, including ‘real, actual’ (compare sense A. 8, although this is not otherwise attested until much later in English and not recorded for the French adjective at all), and ‘self-made’, for which no other evidence appears to exist in either language. It is possible that autenticque in the original is to be interpreted as ‘splendid, magnificent’ (14th cent.), a semantic development which is well attested in Middle French but not otherwise paralleled in English. Form history. The Older Scots form altentik at α. forms shows a reverse spelling reflecting Scots vocalization of preconsonantal l . The β. forms and their parallels in French are ultimately influenced by folk-etymological association with classical Latin auctor author n. and auctōritās authority n. (the authenticity of a document being regarded as guaranteed by its author; compare also the discussion of form history at author n.). The γ. forms probably show several distinct origins. While some (early) forms of this type may reflect Middle French variants in at- (also found rarely in Old French in Flanders and Picardy), which show prefix substitution of a- a- prefix5, others are more likely to show a reduced vowel (resulting from low stress) or (in Older Scots) regular monophthongization of /aʊ/ in the first syllable. The form actentik probably ultimately reflects confusion of classical Latin auctor author n. and āctor actor n. (see discussion at author n.), perhaps immediately after Middle French actentique. A. adj. 1. society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > legally valid a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 451 (MED) Of alle þe autentike [L. autentica] grauntes þat ȝoure cherche haþ, i-graunted of oure predecessours, we wil noþing wiþdraw. a1450 (?1419–20) Friar Daw's Reply (Digby) l. 510 in P. L. Heyworth (1968) 88 Of her lettris, & of her sele, if autentike þei weren. ?1466 Copy of Statement in Name of Edward IV in (2004) II. 551 Divers old deeds, some without date, insealed under autenticke seales. 1553 T. Wilson f. 53v Couenauntes and deedes autentique. 1673 J. Flavell vi. 59 What is done by commission..is Authentick. 1721 Ld. Buckingham 84 Our Appetites are Nature's Laws, and giv'n Under the broad Authentick Seal of Heav'n. 1754 G. G. Beekman Let. 18 Nov. in (1956) I. 233 If Mr. Stoddard Should dispute Mr. William Batts power to Robert Stevens not be athentick becaused [sic] its not Proved. 1888 69 539 The instrument..had all the force, and was entitled, under the facts, to all the faith given to instruments authentic. 1907 M. Rollins 121 Deed, a document in writing (generally a printed form to be filled out in writing is used) rendered authentic by the seal of the party whose intention it is supposed to declare. 2011 A. E. Black & G. F. Bell 14 Notaries..are the only legal professionals entitled to create authentic deeds (or notarial deeds). society > law > legal capacity > [adjective] > legally qualified a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 1013 in (1981) 42 He is autentik, and ane man of age, And hes grit practick of the chanceliary. 1540 xxv With the approbacions and testimonies of fowre sundrie notaries autentique thervnto subscribed. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. iii. 12 Of all the learned and authenticke fellowes. View more context for this quotation 1653 in M. Burrows (1881) 377 Before you, a publique notary, being a publique and authentique person, and the wittnesses here present. 1715 tr. C. Freschot II. i. 350 To his Writings and Instruments entire Credit is given judicially and extrajudicially as is used to be given to other Authentic Notaries. 1778 N. Havard 78 The subscription of the notary or any other authentic person. 1848 5 497 Minutes of proceedings can be no proof, for they were made by no authentic persons, registers were kept by no warranted officials. 1896 O. J. Reichel II. ix. 330 A public instrument executed before a notary or authentic person. 2. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > authentic a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 163 Þis is i-founde in noon cronikel þat is autentik. a1450 ( G. Chaucer (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 1086 Though her stories be autentike. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) l. 260 in (1934) ii. 550 This story is ful autentik & old, In Frenssh compiled often rad & seyn. 1532–3 xii By diuers sondrie olde autentike histories, and cronicles it is manifestlie declared and expressed. 1600 S. Lewkenor f. 43 That an Vniuersity was herein long since erected, appeareth by the autentique testimony of sondry learned Historiographers. 1662 W. Dugdale xlvi. 244 That they did so, is evident enough from that authentique Survey.., taken by the Norman Conqueror. 1735 W. Somervile ii. 125 If some stanch Hound, with his authentick Voice Avow the recent Trail. 1739 Ld. Chesterfield 17 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) II. 378 Authentic means true; something that may be depended upon as coming from good authority. 1796 Bp. R. Watson ii. 33 A genuine book, is that which was written by the person whose name it bears, as the author of it. An authentic book, is that which relates matters of fact, as they really happened. 1836 C. Jillson in J. Reed 184 I propose to give in this work a concise and authentic account of all the executions which have transpired in this county. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 5 Oct. in (1980) 451 Some portrait..reckoned authentic, which the early painters followed. 1944 1 June 16- o/3 The small throw-aways contain the latest authentic reports of the progress of the war. 1949 J. Kerouac Jrnl. 23 May in (2004) 192 Why do I read Western dime novels?—for the beautiful and authentic descriptions of benchlands, desert heat, horses, night stars, and so forth. 1983 27 Jan. 8/1 Several of the 17 men whom I interviewed for Prisoners of the Japanese agreed that the BBC1's Tenko was the most authentic representation to date of the Far East prisoner's life. 1995 C. Sagan vi. 103 If Simon had pronounced their account authentic, the sales of the book might have gone through the roof. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > authentic > of persons: accepted as authentic a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1959) ix. iv. l. 67 Thai all desyre sum attentik men be send. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin iii. f. 327 To discredit so many authentike witnesses. 1638 J. Suckling Epil. 38 When an authentique Watch is showne, Each man windes up, and rectifies his owne. 1647 J. Howell 149 Some of the authentiquest Annalists. 1706 G. Keith 25 George Fox was the first and most Authentic Author among them. 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg (ed. 2) IV. xci. 5 He is an authentic writer. 1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in vi. 55 Certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege, that..the ghost rides forth..in nightly quest of his head. 1906 13 Jan. 77/1 The Commercial Bank of Erie, which failed in 1820 because Cleveland was too sparcely settled to maintain it, according to authentic chroniclers. 1999 K. Hofmann in M. Musgrave i. 14 An authentic witness, the wife of Otto Cossel, energetically refutes Kalbeck's assertion. 3. That possesses authority; entitled to obedience or respect; authoritative. society > authority > [adjective] > of due or established authority c1395 (Royal 1 C.viii) (1850) Isa. Prol. 226 No goostli vndurstondyng is autentik, no but it be groundid in the text opynli. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 7116 Saint Austyn says þus, Whase wordes er auctentyke. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 3493 Þe bible, Whiche is a book autentik and credible. 1595 G. Chapman sig. D3 Let autentique Reason be our guide. 1641 sig. G We have an authentique rule. 1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles 20 To esteem their Sentences as authentick as Laws. 1724 J. Swift 17 Some short plain Authentick Tract might be published for the Information both of Petty and Grand-Jurys. 1777 tr. J.-F. Marmontel I. xi. 110 He [sc. God] has issued a formal authentic command, invested with all the solemnity that an expression of his will requires. 1817 June 546/1 Nothing should be granted till the authentic ratification of the Pope, as to the domestic nomination of the Bishops, &c. should have been promulgated. 1849 W. Fitzgerald tr. W. Whitaker 332 That is called authentic, which is sufficient to itself, which commends, sustains, proves itself, and hath credit and authority from itself. 1902 J. H. Wright et al. tr. M. Philippson i. i. 29 In 1563, this so-called Heidelberg Catechism was made the authentic rule of faith for the whole Palatinate. c1450 (Sloane 2464) l. 1713 (MED) To make vomyth..Sugre Roseet with aloes, mastyk Wel Chawyd, as sey doctours awtentyk. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. ccccxxvii. 749 One of the moost autentyke men of the court of parlyment. 1612 B. Jonson ii. iii. sig. E3v Why, h'is the most autentique dealer I'these Commodities! View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Cleveland 3 Take him thus and he is the Inquisition of the purse, an Authentick Gypsie, that Nips your bung with a canting Ordinance. 1710 H. Prideaux iii. 160 Doth not appear in any Authentic writer. the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [adjective] 1407 in W. Fraser (1859) II. 20 The samen wil becum skairclie legiable; and sua it is necessar that the said infeftment be transsumit..in autentik forme. 1566 T. Stapleton iv. f. 35 The Copies sent from the East were not the true Authentike and originall Copies. 1588 W. Lambarde (new ed.) iii. iv. 370 According to the Originall and Autentique Records. 1610 G. Carleton 72 They would send for the autentike copies of the Nicen Councell. 1667 J. Milton iv. 719 On him who had stole Joves authentic fire. View more context for this quotation a1727 I. Newton (1728) vi. 369 The book..was originally copied from Authentic writings. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in 244 Age,..As time improves the grape's authentic juice, Mellows and makes the speech more fit for use. 1783 E. Malone Let. 5 Aug. in (1944) I. 3 That Wolsey poison'd himself, was only a vulgar popular imputation..In the authentic MSS. there is no vestige of such a charge. 1822 S. Rogers xvii. 132 To steal a spark from their authentick fire. the mind > possession > owning > [adjective] > belonging > properly 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer viii. 74 Then Nestor cut the gears With his new-drawn authentic sword. 1649 J. Milton xxviii. 228 [For justice] to put her own authentic Sword into the hand of an unjust and wicked Man. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [adjective] > mode > medieval mode > authentic 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus i. xi. 27 An Authentick Tone [L. tonus autentus] hath no place of rising to the tenth. 1667 C. Simpson 113 These Moods or Tones had yet another distinction; and that was, Authentick, or Plagal. 1710 3–5 May The Ancient Division of the Octave into the Harmonical and Arithmetical Process, call'd also Authentic and Plagal. 1730 x. 80 One of the Parts is in the Authentick, and the Other in the Plagal Mode of the Key we compose in. 1782 C. Burney II. 81 Guido uses the terms authentic and plagal for the modes. 1879 G. Grove I. 105/2 ‘Ein feste Burg’ and ‘Eisenach’ are examples of ‘authentic’ melodies, and the Old 100th and Hanover of ‘plagal’ ones. 1880 G. Grove II. 18/1 When first employed in polyphonic music, the Authentic scale was usually transposed. 1954 D. N. Ferguson 645 The four authentic modes were scales, without sharps or flats, on D, E, F, and G. 2011 A. Smith vi. 100 It is..valuable to look at the cadences to see whether they are ones more likely associated with the authentic or plagal form of the mode. 7. Genuine; not feigned or false. Now the usual sense. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > authentic > in origin or authorship 1645 6 The first [sc. letter] from Digby to the Rebels is true, and authentick; the other I suspect to be counterfeited, but so as it comes very neer to truth. 1647 Bp. J. Taylor v. 118 There were false Epistles of Pope Vigilius and Menna the Patriarch of Constantinople inserted, and so they passed for authentick till they were discovered in the sixth Generall Synod. 1670 S. Wilson (new ed.) i. 86 In a Chappel over against the Pulpit, is kept reverently an authentick Relick of St. John Baptist, under the Altar. 1701 J. Collier tr. A. Dacier Life Marcus Aurelius Antoninus p. lxxii, in tr. Marcus Aurelius Tertullian, and several other Writers..mention this Letter, and argue upon it; which they durst not have done had it not been..unquestionably Authentick. 1790 W. Paley i. 1 I believe the letters authentic, and the narration in the main to be true. 1824 T. F. Dibdin 27 Every authentic piece from the pens of Tyndal and Coverdale. 1860 T. H. Huxley in 4 8 I could find neither in the British Museum, nor in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, any authentic skeleton of this, the so-called Nilotic Crocodile. 1880 16 Dec. 5/3 Authentic documents artfully falsified. 1936 3 Dec. 3/4 Period instruments such as the..spinet—some authentic others in replica. 1956 A. L. Rowse 24 Aug. (2003) 252 Interesting things they had: Restoration portraits set the tone, not very good but authentic. 2008 A. A. Mosshammer (2009) x. 195 Krusch argued that the text could not possibly be the authentic work of Cyril. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > genuine, real 1868 T. Nicholas ii. iv. 135 The ‘English Aristocracy’ who are proud of tracing their descent from a ‘Norman Origin’ must be allowed to be, in fact, neither English nor Norman, but authentic Celts. 1926 P. Lawlor 9 The reader should be warned that the apparently phonetic spelling of English..is not to be accepted as authentic ‘Maori English’. 1961 June 377/1 America's Black Muslims, it must be remembered, are not authentic Islamites. 1974 P. Kenyon iv. 41 He was..an authentic blueblood whose ancestors had been among the signers of the Mayflower Compact. 2006 Winter 29/2 Saddle up and watch Jackaroos rustling up the herd on an authentic Outback cattle station. 1893 Dec. 111/1 His beautiful last lines ‘As I lay a-thinking’ do not require the not very authentic antiquity of their spelling to give them charm. 1900 W. Walton in X. 50 Robida's Vieux Paris (quite authentic restorations, architecture and costumes). 1921 A. P. Herbert 181 The noise and the rhythm were the authentic music of a negro village in South America. 1949 10 May 30/4 Old Bay seasoning mixture for shrimps, crabs and lobster should be authentic for it's the product of the Baltimore Spice Company of Baltimore. 1958 23 Feb. 6/1 This is a tense story of sea warfare... The mess-room talk is most authentic. 1967 25 Feb. 20/2 It was all pretty authentic except for the Australian dim sims that went with Chinese beer. 2000 July 69/1 Hodding Carter decided to build an authentic wooden Viking ship..and sail it. 1915 Jan. 50/1 I wanted to shake him into being a man, some one who would bear me off, or make tremendous and authentic love. 1929 16 Nov. 6/5 Clifford has an authentic love of nature. 1954 P. Frankau iii. iii. 188 This, for the first time in my life, was true, authentic jealousy. 1987 A. Miller (1988) viii. 579 Was he being hip, or was this an authentic urge to square himself with American-British liberalism. 2012 21 July 40/3 So-called Duchenne smiles—big, beaming smiles involving the eyes as well as the mouth—which are considered to be authentic expressions of happiness. 1944 5 394 Heidegger introduces his distinction of ‘authentic’ and ‘unauthentic’ existence, and of the phenomenon of the impersonal ‘one’. 1972 J. Macquarrie iii. 75 Would one go on to draw the conclusion that perhaps a thief or a pervert or a tyrant is an authentic man, because he has really chosen to be thief, pervert, or tyrant? 1977 C. McFadden (1978) iv. 14/1 The really authentic thing to do was to act on your impulses. 1996 M. Aftel ii. 38 Flawed assumptions often get in the way of living an authentic life. the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [adjective] > as opposed to apparent, spiritual, or intellectual 1664 H. Power Concl. 188 There is one more general Impediment, which is an Authentick discouragement to the promotion of the Arts and Sciences. a1704 T. Brown Epigr. in (1707) I. ii. 19 Well might the sage Philosophers of old Their justling Atoms for authentick hold. 1782 W. F. Martyn 1 225 Authentic facts, and unquestionable evidence. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell I. 114 There is still in it light enough to exhibit its own self; nay to diffuse a faint authentic twilight some distance round it. 1881 Mar. 407/2 The strange, often-discussed, never-solved problem as to the provability of authentic communications from the Unseen. 1894 May 15 He kissed it [sc. the letter],..and shed several authentic tears over it. 1904 3 394 In the only authentic case of octuplets which I have been able to find (Boston Med. & Surg. Journal, Sept. 26, 1872) there were five boys and three girls. 1993 A. Collins in A. Collins et al. v. 100 Is this vision a projection of her unconscious..or is it an authentic ghost, a true ghostly appearance? the world > action or operation > [adjective] > operating independently or spontaneously 1834 (ed. 3) I. 545 The spontaneous or authentic [previous eds. read automatic] motions of clock-work. B. n.c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 7143 Of Enee, themperour Iustyne, In his boke, callid Autentikes, Ful pleynly writ þer in þe rubrikes. 1566 T. Stapleton iv. f. 123v He meaneth the Authentikes not the Code, a lawe of Iustinian not of Honorius and Theodosus. 1614 J. Selden 21 Iustinians Nouells (which they call authentiques). 1685 i. vi. 8 If y'ave any need of the Laws, or of the Rubriques, I know the whole Codex, and Authenticks too. 1704 T. Wood 5 The Novels or Authenticks were published at several times without any method. They are called Novels, because they are new Laws; and Authenticks, because they are exactly and Authentically translated from the Greek into the Latin Tongue. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin I. ii. ii. 25 Frederick II. in the year 1220, made an Authentick which is inserted in the Justinian Code. 1818 Sept. 327 There are a few supplementary regulations in the Novels and Authentics of Justinian, on the subjects of maritime loans and the plunder of wrecks. 1856 (ed. 6) II. 350/1 In the 9th Collation of the Authentics it is declared the bishop of Rome hath the first place of sitting in all assemblies. 1915 A. F. Leach xi. 215 He left his books..on civil law, namely Institutes, Codex, Ancient Digest and Authentics and other legal writings. 1997 59 275 One of the summary Authentics accompanying Constitutions in medieval editions of the Codex. society > authority > [noun] > authoritativeness, due, or established authority > an authoritative book or document society > communication > book > kind of book > authoritative or standard book > [noun] a1475 in A. Clark (1906) ii. 681 (MED) He confermed..the liberteis and the immynumentis..as hit is I-conteyned in the autentikes of the forsaid Bisshoppe. 1566 R. Horne f. 80v He [sc. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor] set foorth a Lawe, or newe authentique of the most high Trinitie, and the Catholique faith. 1599 F. Thynne (1875) 42 The proper signyficatione of ‘autenticke’ is, ‘a thinge of auctorytye or credit allowed by menne of auctorytye, or the originall or fyrste archetypum of any thinge’. 1602 W. Fulbecke 25 Scripture, the authentike of Religion. 1703 J. Brydall (title page) Containing Several other Authenticks, to Corroborate..that Royal Maxim; The King can do no Wrong. the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [noun] > an original 1599 F. Thynne (1875) 42 The proper signyficatione of ‘autenticke’ is, ‘a thinge of auctorytye or credit allowed by menne of auctorytye, or the originall or fyrste archetypum of any thinge’. 1608 S. Hieron 86 Which is to confounde the measure and the mesured..the authentick, and some copie or notes taken out of it. 1655 T. Fuller i. 42 Principall and Interest, Authenticks and Transcripts, are all imbezzelled. 1726 T. Madox Pref. sig. bv As soon as I looked more narrowly into my Manuscript Collections, I found There many copies of Records and Authenticks. 1772 in J. Ayloffe Introd. p. xvi We are not told from what authentics it was that Ernulfus Bishop of Rochester, transcribed..the famous placitum. 1836 p. iii The Secretary is directed to collect from our minutes, or from other authentics, such recollections as will enable us to form a compendium of the origin and proceedings of this Association. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > medieval mode > authentic modes 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus 13 Whilest they discend from a Fift to the finall Note, they are Authentickes [L. autentica]. 1776 J. Hawkins I. iii. viii. 351 The difference between the Authentic and Plagal Modes, arises from the different division of the diapason in each; the Authentics being divided in harmonical, and the Plagals in arithmetical proportion. 1879 June 372/2 The so-called plagal or subordinate modes..are all diatonic, they have, as is clearly seen, the same intervals, the same range, the same finals as their authentics. 1890 F. J. Crowest 43 The fanciful and inappropriate Greek names which have come to be associated with these scales, viz. Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixo-Lydian, for the Authentics,..have nothing to do with St. Gregory. 1908 C. G. Hamilton iii. 32 The dominant was the fifth of each Authentic, and a third below that in its relative Plagal, except that B was always changed to C. 2002 D. E. Cohen in T. S. Christensen iii. xi. 347 Modal octaves composed of the fifth above the final plus a fourth either above that, for authentics, or below it, for plagals. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > expert, specialist, authority 1613 J. Stephens iv. ii. sig. M3 Till sage authentickes of vn-spotted liues Leaue baudy Panderisme to their willing wiues. 1713 J. Addison in 23 July 1/2 No Critick has ever..been looked upon as an Authentick, who did not show by his Practice, that he was a Master of the Theory. Compounds1814 S. T. Coleridge in 27 Aug. Good old authentic-looking folios and quartos. 1920 7 Apr. 1/6 Almost every day some stranger comes along with an authentic-looking paper of credentials, begging for money. 2009 J. Mullen & D. Daniels (2011) 279/2 Identity theft in which a scammer uses an authentic-looking email to trick recipients into giving out sensitive personal information. C2. 1813 J. M. Good et al. at Music The authentic cadence is the same as the perfect, and is only so termed in contradistinction to the plagal. 1873 H. C. Banister §128 The perfect (formerly termed Authentic) Cadence, or Full Close, consists of the Major Triad on the Dominant, followed by the Triad on the Tonic. 2011 S. Rings ii. vi. 193 This metric displacement coincides with a slide away from the harmonic security of the authentic cadence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). authenticv. Origin: A borrowing from French. Probably also partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French autentiquer ; authentic adj. Etymology: Originally < Middle French autentiquer (see authenticate v.). In later use probably independently < authentic adj. Compare later authenticate v. Now rare. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > describe truly [verb (transitive)] > authenticate c1475 (?c1400) (1842) 15 In materis to be don..confermid, canoniȝid, autenkid..in ani maner of cause a geyn ani man. 1592 S. Daniel xlvi. sig. G3v But I must sing of thee and those faire eyes, Autentique shall my verse in time to come, When yet th'vnborne shall say, loe where she lyes, Whose beautie made him speake that els was dombe. 1831 Oct. 448 Their communication being authenticed by a real signature. 1900 230 Cotton Seed Meal..is claimed, by some, to cause abortion, although the belief is not well authenticed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  adj.n.a1387 v.c1475 |
