accreditv.

Brit.

/əˈkrɛdɪt/, U.S.

/əˈkrɛdət/

Forms: 1500s accredite, 1600s acredit, 1600s– accredit.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French acrediter.

Etymology: < Middle French acrediter, Middle French, French accréditer to give (a person) credit, confidence, sanction, or recommendation (1553), to give (a company or institution) credit or recommendation (1689) < Spanish acreditar (reflexive) to gain someone's confidence, to credit (a person) (both mid 16th cent.) < a- (see a- prefix⁵) + credito credit (see credit n.). Compare post-classical Latin accreditare to entrust, lend (12th cent. in a British source), Catalan acreditar to certify (1638), Portuguese acreditar (1602), Italian accreditare to render credible (a1600), to become credible (reflexive, a1647), to credit (1682), to give accreditation to a diplomatic representative (1829). Compare earlier credit v.

1. transitive. To give or lend credit to, to promote as or show to be credible; to gain belief or influence for. Also: to vouch for, sanction, or countenance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > support, corroborate

fasteneOE

i-sothea925

sustainc1325

witness1362

approvec1380

confirmc1384

affirma1393

justifya1393

to bear outa1475

corrobore1485

uphold1485

nourisha1522

underpinc1522

to countenance outa1529

favoura1530

soothe1544

strengthen1548

comfort1593

second1596

accredit1598

evidencea1601

warrantise1600

compact1608

back1612

thickena1616

accreditate1654

shoulder1674

support1691

corroborate1706

carry1835

to give (also lend) colour1921

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 177 The wise Captaine Generall doth thereof make an habite..of his valour and honorable actes; the which doth accredite him, and encrease to him authoritie.

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote iv. vi. 65 As well by these reasons as by many other..which acredit and fortifie mine opinion.

1658 T. Tanner Entrance of Mazzarini Continued 103 His predecessor applied himselfe the more seriously to..accredit himselfe in his owne Country.

1746 R. Whatley Christian p. viii The following Discourse, My Lord, accredited and authorized by your Lordship's great and truly venerable Name.

1793 W. Cowper Let. 17 Feb. (1984) IV. 292 His censure (to use the new diplomatic term) will accredit his praises.

1802 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 92 175 The exhibition of this stone..did not tend to accredit the account of its descent.

1822 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 28 29 The prediction of calamities for France accredited these dreams.

1850 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art 223 It was not sufficiently accredited for a church legend.

1879 W. E. Gladstone in Leeds Mercury 6 Dec. 3/5 [His] mode of action at the Cape of Good Hope does not tend to accredit his advice in Afghanistan.

1920 Times 30 Mar. 15/4 It accredits the belief, prevalent in many quarters, that the great armament firms in Italy exercise..undue influence upon a section of the Press and of public opinion.

1982 Times 4 June 9/2 It is unfortunately possible that the court will have helped to accredit this conspiracy theory.

2004 E. Michael Beyond Pendowry Water xxvii. 198 Nothing less than possession of a copy of the real will itself would accredit them in his eyes as opponents to be reckoned with.

a. transitive. To give (an ambassador, envoy, etc.) the requisite letters of credence or other authority to be in a particular place or to hold a particular post; to supply or recommend with such documentation. Also in extended use. Chiefly with to, at. Chiefly in passive.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > behave as diplomat towards [verb (transitive)] > accredit ambassador

accredit1733

society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > vest authority in a person [verb (transitive)] > accredit

accredit1797

1733 E. Budgell Bee No. 72. 343 An Ambassador accredited to the Republick of Poland.

1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV 27 He represents the opinions of a very large portion of their body by whom he is accredited.

1798 E. Gerry Let. 1 Oct. in Coll. State Papers War against France (1800) VIII. 223 A compliance with his wishes would have given a sanction..to the measure adopted by his government, of accrediting at pleasure the whole or a part only of a commission.

1852 W. E. Gladstone in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 361 There are representatives of Portugal and Spain, accredited from sovereigns themselves symbols of the popular principle.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. xviii. 432 The sovereign to whom I am accredited.

1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. vi. 81 The representatives of foreign Powers accredited to St. James's might be excused.

1917 E. Satow Guide to Diplomatic Pract. I. xiv. 193 The generally existing diplomatic practice to ask, previously to any nomination of a foreign minister, the consent (agrément) of the Government to which he is to be accredited.

1955 Times 8 Aug. 5/1 His principal guests—at a summer dacha 60 miles from Moscow..were the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Soviet Government.

2000 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Nov. 28 As PUS, it fell to Greenhill to attend the Queen when she received the letters of credence of foreign ambassadors accredited to her.

b. transitive. To certify (a person, institution, etc.) as meeting certain standards set by an official body; to recognize officially as eligible to carry out a particular profession or function.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > ratification or confirmation > confirm or ratify [verb (transitive)]

confirm1297

ratify1357

endoss1381

approve1413

roborate?a1475

establish1533

justify1596

firm1599

rate?1611

affeera1616

tie1623

convalidate1656

sanction1778

accredit1826

countersign1840

endorse1847

1826 Lancet 4 Mar. 780/2 He comes into the service of his employer accredited by the certificate of the Apothecaries' Society.

1888 Rep. 11th Ann. Meeting Amer. Bar Assoc. 43 It is an assumption and a policy that all those who have come here have been accredited by the Bar.

1912 79th Gen. Assembly State of Ohio ii. 775 Your question is, if St. Vincent's Orphanage, an incorporated association, were properly accredited.

1975 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 75 2129/2 ANA has two members on the JCAH council for accrediting facilities for the mentally retarded.

1991 Financial Times 13 Nov. i. 14 The Eco-Audit regulation stipulates that each country must appoint one independent body to accredit the eco-auditors.

2007 C. J. Brennen Little House in Projects iv. 93 Eileen and Lori worked together to create two yellow manuals for the surveyors coming to accredit the hospital.

c. transitive. Education (originally U.S.). To certify (a school, course, etc.) as meeting standards established by external assessors or regulators. Cf. accredited adj. 1b.

ΚΠ

1872 Amer. Jrnl. Homoeopathic Materia Medica May 369 A correspondent..is anxious to know if the ‘Detroit Homoeopathic College’ will be accredited, and its diploma acknowledged by his Alma Mater, the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia.

1892 Overland Monthly Dec. 595/2 A school may be accredited in one or more subjects, though failing to offer any whole course satisfactorily.

1916 Bull. Univ. New Mexico (Educ. Ser.) 1 262 The University reserves the right to accredit a school partially and to reconsider or modify the accrediting at any time in case of deterioration of work.

1944 A. Campbell Guidance Pract. in Four Year Accredited Negro High Schools of Missouri i. 13 This study is limited to the forty-six accredited four-year Negro high schools in Missouri that are accredited by the State Department of Education.

1969 H. Margulies & L. S. Bloch Foreign Med. Graduates in U.S. ii. 27 WHO makes no attempt, however, to classify or accredit these [medical] schools.

2001 Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 27/1 The Engineering Council..refuses to accredit engineering courses on which fewer than 60 per cent of the students have at least three Cs.

a. transitive. With with. To credit (a person, also a thing), esp. by general agreement, with a quality, etc.; to vouch for as the owner or author; to ascribe or attribute to. Cf. credit v. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > inhere in or be an attribute of [verb (transitive)] > attribute or ascribe as an attribute > to a person > credit a person with an attribute

to threap (something) upon1559

accredit1818

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)] > attribute to an author or source

refera1398

reducec1454

father?1499

entitle1550

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mother1645

authoridate1652

accredit1864

1818 E. Pond Treat. Christian Baptism i. 11 We hope it was not Mr. Judson's design to be accredited with all this learning himself.

1832 T. Chalmers On Polit. Econ. ii. 50 We affirm of a shawl-making village, that all which it yields to society is shawls. We accredit it with this, but with nothing more.

1864 Morning Star 13 June 4 Whenever topics fail them these worthy gentlemen fall back upon his Royal Highness and accredit him with the most wonderful sayings and doings.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. 208 Mr. Bright himself was accredited with having said that his own effort to arouse a reforming spirit..was like flogging a dead horse.

1903 A. W. Patterson Schumann viii. 128 Musicians are usually accredited with a lack of the nobler feelings of generosity towards each other.

1965 Times 22 Nov. 7/6 Whisky sometimes accredited with reviving properties, may prove to be the main lifesaver of Highland railway lines.

2003 G. M. E. Alban Melusine ii. xi. 193 Lucian..says that some accredited her with the building of the temple of Aphrodite in the Libanus.

b. transitive. Originally U.S. To give the credit for or attribute (something) to.

ΚΠ

1818 E. Pond Treat. Christian Baptism i. 11 Every reader has a right to know how much of any work is to be accredited to its ostensible author.

1860 Amer. Agriculturist 19 353/1 Every Journal is invited freely to copy any and all desirable articles, if each article or illustration copied, be duly accredited to the American Agriculturist.

1876 A. Wilder in R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. p. xxvii To the fanatical hordes of Islam..is to be accredited the extinction of the Mystic Orgies of the East.

1900 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 22 Dec. 487/1 The introduction of the name [‘Columbia’] as a poetic title for the United States is to be accredited to Dr. Timothy Dwight.

1927 Sunday Times 15 May 10/5 The discovery of the ‘close-up’ and the ‘cut-back’ has always been accredited to Griffith.

2004 J. Luo Over Cup of Tea ii. 35 The compiling of the The Book of Odes is accredited to Confucius.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	accredit
释义	accreditv. Brit. /əˈkrɛdɪt/, U.S. /əˈkrɛdət/ Forms: 1500s accredite, 1600s acredit, 1600s– accredit. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French acrediter. Etymology: < Middle French acrediter, Middle French, French accréditer to give (a person) credit, confidence, sanction, or recommendation (1553), to give (a company or institution) credit or recommendation (1689) < Spanish acreditar (reflexive) to gain someone's confidence, to credit (a person) (both mid 16th cent.) < a- (see a- prefix⁵) + credito credit (see credit n.). Compare post-classical Latin accreditare to entrust, lend (12th cent. in a British source), Catalan acreditar to certify (1638), Portuguese acreditar (1602), Italian accreditare to render credible (a1600), to become credible (reflexive, a1647), to credit (1682), to give accreditation to a diplomatic representative (1829). Compare earlier credit v. 1. transitive. To give or lend credit to, to promote as or show to be credible; to gain belief or influence for. Also: to vouch for, sanction, or countenance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > support, corroborate fasteneOE i-sothea925 sustainc1325 witness1362 approvec1380 confirmc1384 affirma1393 justifya1393 to bear outa1475 corrobore1485 uphold1485 nourisha1522 underpinc1522 to countenance outa1529 favoura1530 soothe1544 strengthen1548 comfort1593 second1596 accredit1598 evidencea1601 warrantise1600 compact1608 back1612 thickena1616 accreditate1654 shoulder1674 support1691 corroborate1706 carry1835 to give (also lend) colour1921 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 177 The wise Captaine Generall doth thereof make an habite..of his valour and honorable actes; the which doth accredite him, and encrease to him authoritie. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote iv. vi. 65 As well by these reasons as by many other..which acredit and fortifie mine opinion. 1658 T. Tanner Entrance of Mazzarini Continued 103 His predecessor applied himselfe the more seriously to..accredit himselfe in his owne Country. 1746 R. Whatley Christian p. viii The following Discourse, My Lord, accredited and authorized by your Lordship's great and truly venerable Name. 1793 W. Cowper Let. 17 Feb. (1984) IV. 292 His censure (to use the new diplomatic term) will accredit his praises. 1802 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 92 175 The exhibition of this stone..did not tend to accredit the account of its descent. 1822 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 28 29 The prediction of calamities for France accredited these dreams. 1850 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art 223 It was not sufficiently accredited for a church legend. 1879 W. E. Gladstone in Leeds Mercury 6 Dec. 3/5 [His] mode of action at the Cape of Good Hope does not tend to accredit his advice in Afghanistan. 1920 Times 30 Mar. 15/4 It accredits the belief, prevalent in many quarters, that the great armament firms in Italy exercise..undue influence upon a section of the Press and of public opinion. 1982 Times 4 June 9/2 It is unfortunately possible that the court will have helped to accredit this conspiracy theory. 2004 E. Michael Beyond Pendowry Water xxvii. 198 Nothing less than possession of a copy of the real will itself would accredit them in his eyes as opponents to be reckoned with. 2. a. transitive. To give (an ambassador, envoy, etc.) the requisite letters of credence or other authority to be in a particular place or to hold a particular post; to supply or recommend with such documentation. Also in extended use. Chiefly with to, at. Chiefly in passive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > behave as diplomat towards [verb (transitive)] > accredit ambassador accredit1733 society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > vest authority in a person [verb (transitive)] > accredit accredit1797 1733 E. Budgell Bee No. 72. 343 An Ambassador accredited to the Republick of Poland. 1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV 27 He represents the opinions of a very large portion of their body by whom he is accredited. 1798 E. Gerry Let. 1 Oct. in Coll. State Papers War against France (1800) VIII. 223 A compliance with his wishes would have given a sanction..to the measure adopted by his government, of accrediting at pleasure the whole or a part only of a commission. 1852 W. E. Gladstone in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 361 There are representatives of Portugal and Spain, accredited from sovereigns themselves symbols of the popular principle. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. xviii. 432 The sovereign to whom I am accredited. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. vi. 81 The representatives of foreign Powers accredited to St. James's might be excused. 1917 E. Satow Guide to Diplomatic Pract. I. xiv. 193 The generally existing diplomatic practice to ask, previously to any nomination of a foreign minister, the consent (agrément) of the Government to which he is to be accredited. 1955 Times 8 Aug. 5/1 His principal guests—at a summer dacha 60 miles from Moscow..were the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Soviet Government. 2000 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Nov. 28 As PUS, it fell to Greenhill to attend the Queen when she received the letters of credence of foreign ambassadors accredited to her. b. transitive. To certify (a person, institution, etc.) as meeting certain standards set by an official body; to recognize officially as eligible to carry out a particular profession or function. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > ratification or confirmation > confirm or ratify [verb (transitive)] confirm1297 ratify1357 endoss1381 approve1413 roborate?a1475 establish1533 justify1596 firm1599 rate?1611 affeera1616 tie1623 convalidate1656 sanction1778 accredit1826 countersign1840 endorse1847 1826 Lancet 4 Mar. 780/2 He comes into the service of his employer accredited by the certificate of the Apothecaries' Society. 1888 Rep. 11th Ann. Meeting Amer. Bar Assoc. 43 It is an assumption and a policy that all those who have come here have been accredited by the Bar. 1912 79th Gen. Assembly State of Ohio ii. 775 Your question is, if St. Vincent's Orphanage, an incorporated association, were properly accredited. 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 75 2129/2 ANA has two members on the JCAH council for accrediting facilities for the mentally retarded. 1991 Financial Times 13 Nov. i. 14 The Eco-Audit regulation stipulates that each country must appoint one independent body to accredit the eco-auditors. 2007 C. J. Brennen Little House in Projects iv. 93 Eileen and Lori worked together to create two yellow manuals for the surveyors coming to accredit the hospital. c. transitive. Education (originally U.S.). To certify (a school, course, etc.) as meeting standards established by external assessors or regulators. Cf. accredited adj. 1b. ΚΠ 1872 Amer. Jrnl. Homoeopathic Materia Medica May 369 A correspondent..is anxious to know if the ‘Detroit Homoeopathic College’ will be accredited, and its diploma acknowledged by his Alma Mater, the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. 1892 Overland Monthly Dec. 595/2 A school may be accredited in one or more subjects, though failing to offer any whole course satisfactorily. 1916 Bull. Univ. New Mexico (Educ. Ser.) 1 262 The University reserves the right to accredit a school partially and to reconsider or modify the accrediting at any time in case of deterioration of work. 1944 A. Campbell Guidance Pract. in Four Year Accredited Negro High Schools of Missouri i. 13 This study is limited to the forty-six accredited four-year Negro high schools in Missouri that are accredited by the State Department of Education. 1969 H. Margulies & L. S. Bloch Foreign Med. Graduates in U.S. ii. 27 WHO makes no attempt, however, to classify or accredit these [medical] schools. 2001 Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 27/1 The Engineering Council..refuses to accredit engineering courses on which fewer than 60 per cent of the students have at least three Cs. 3. a. transitive. With with. To credit (a person, also a thing), esp. by general agreement, with a quality, etc.; to vouch for as the owner or author; to ascribe or attribute to. Cf. credit v. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > inhere in or be an attribute of [verb (transitive)] > attribute or ascribe as an attribute > to a person > credit a person with an attribute to threap (something) upon1559 accredit1818 the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)] > attribute to an author or source refera1398 reducec1454 father?1499 entitle1550 intitule1559 foist1598 attribute1599 mother1645 authoridate1652 accredit1864 1818 E. Pond Treat. Christian Baptism i. 11 We hope it was not Mr. Judson's design to be accredited with all this learning himself. 1832 T. Chalmers On Polit. Econ. ii. 50 We affirm of a shawl-making village, that all which it yields to society is shawls. We accredit it with this, but with nothing more. 1864 Morning Star 13 June 4 Whenever topics fail them these worthy gentlemen fall back upon his Royal Highness and accredit him with the most wonderful sayings and doings. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. 208 Mr. Bright himself was accredited with having said that his own effort to arouse a reforming spirit..was like flogging a dead horse. 1903 A. W. Patterson Schumann viii. 128 Musicians are usually accredited with a lack of the nobler feelings of generosity towards each other. 1965 Times 22 Nov. 7/6 Whisky sometimes accredited with reviving properties, may prove to be the main lifesaver of Highland railway lines. 2003 G. M. E. Alban Melusine ii. xi. 193 Lucian..says that some accredited her with the building of the temple of Aphrodite in the Libanus. b. transitive. Originally U.S. To give the credit for or attribute (something) to. ΚΠ 1818 E. Pond Treat. Christian Baptism i. 11 Every reader has a right to know how much of any work is to be accredited to its ostensible author. 1860 Amer. Agriculturist 19 353/1 Every Journal is invited freely to copy any and all desirable articles, if each article or illustration copied, be duly accredited to the American Agriculturist. 1876 A. Wilder in R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. p. xxvii To the fanatical hordes of Islam..is to be accredited the extinction of the Mystic Orgies of the East. 1900 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 22 Dec. 487/1 The introduction of the name [‘Columbia’] as a poetic title for the United States is to be accredited to Dr. Timothy Dwight. 1927 Sunday Times 15 May 10/5 The discovery of the ‘close-up’ and the ‘cut-back’ has always been accredited to Griffith. 2004 J. Luo Over Cup of Tea ii. 35 The compiling of the The Book of Odes is accredited to Confucius. 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