单词 | accreditate |
释义 | accreditatev. transitive. = accredit v. (in various senses); (in recent use esp.) to confer official accreditation on (a school, programme, etc.). Now chiefly in passive. 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 1654 A. Cokayne tr. G. F. Loredano Dianea iv. 306 She bowed, kissing the Thracians hands, who would not resist it, to accreditate [It. accreditare] the beginnings of his Love to be of estimation. 1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton To Tru Philol. It will be an occasion hereby to accreditat her the more. 1860 Charleston Med. Jrnl. & Rev. 15 339 Dr. Griscom says ‘it [sc. yellow fever] is accreditated to a poison derived from vegetable putrefaction’. 1897 ‘Ouida’ Massarenes (N.Y. ed.) xlvi. 567 Public subscriptions will become accreditated [London ed. accredited] to him as divine charities. 1950 Crisis Nov. 668 The school is officially accreditated by the American Veterinary Medical Association. 1997 S. R. Connor Hospice i. i. 6 A total of 31% of programs were accreditated by the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Health Care Organisations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1654 |
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