reauthorizev.

1605 G. Babington Certaine Considerations drawne from Canons of Last Sinod 28 So many of them [sc. canons], as at that time were not..revived and reauthorized, ought not to be attempted, alleadged, claymed or put in vre at this day.

a1626 F. Bacon Wks. (1852) 306/1 He hath awaked and re-authorized the whole party of the reformed religion throughout Europe.

1646 J. Trapp Brief Comm. John xxi. 17 To confirm him..and to re-authorize him in his apostleship.

1850 Ld. Palmerston in Hansard Commons 4 Feb. 282/2 It was necessary that Prussia should be reauthorised by the new central Power; and that has been done.

1864 Atlantic Monthly July 114/1 It may be exported to foreign lands, but it is not there a currency until reauthorized.

1929 Times 8 July 15/6 The Presidium of the Central Executive Committee..has issued a new decree formally re-authorizing the seizure of grain belonging to peasants by the local Soviet authorities in Ukraine.

1948 M. Whiffen Stuart & Georgian Churches i. 5 In Edward VI's reign it had been ordered that every stone altar was to be replaced by a wooden table. Mary re-authorised the use of stone altars.

1994 Amer. Spectator Feb. 42/2 They refused to reauthorize the drug office for five years. They refused to reauthorize it for even two years. Instead, they gave the office just one year to live; its status will be reconsidered this November.