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单词 accreditate
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accreditatev.

Brit. /əˈkrɛdɪteɪt/, U.S. /əˈkrɛdəˌteɪt/
Forms: 1600s accreditat, 1600s 1800s– accreditate.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Italian, combined with an English element. Etymons: French accréditer , -ate suffix3; Italian accreditare , -ate suffix3.
Etymology: < French accréditer or Italian accreditare (see accredit v.) + -ate suffix3. Compare earlier accredit v. and foreign-language forms cited at that entry.
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).
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