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verb

Authorize v. t. (past & past part. authorized; pres. part. authorizing)

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.

To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.

To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report. "A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam."

To justify; to furnish a ground for.

To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. (Obs.) "Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... also been instructed to make a further appeal to the justice of Spain, in behalf of our citizens, for indemnity for spoliations upon our commerce committed under her authority—an appeal which the pacific and liberal course observed on our part and a due confidence in the honor of that Government authorize us to expect will not ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, - Vol. 2, Part 3, Andrew Jackson, 1st term • Edited by James D. Richardson

... is probable, in fact, that there was some proposition of this kind from them, for Caesar had abundant means of inducing them to make it, if he was disposed, and the receiving of such a communication furnished the most obvious and plausible pretext to authorize ...

— History of Julius Caesar • Jacob Abbott

... the rest of the charts, and began getting summarized Ministry reports. Economics had denied a request from the Mining Cartel to authorize operations on a couple of uninhabited planets; danger of local market gluts and overstimulation of manufacturing. Permission granted to Robotics Cartel to—— Request from planetary government of Durendal for increase of cereal export quotas under consideration—they ...

— Ministry of Disturbance • Henry Beam Piper

... niece, Marjorie Carmichael, is of legal age, it is her desire and that of her mother that I, in the capacity of guardian, should authorize you or your firm, as I hereby do in her name, to prosecute her claim as the heir of the late Dr. James Douglas Carmichael, M.P., to the fortune advertised by P.R. Mac Smaill, W.S., of Edinburgh as falling her late father, and to conduct all necessary negotiations with ...

— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell

... pleased to authorize the raising of two companies under my superintendence, giving me the nomination of the officers, I have to acquaint you, for his information, that Alexander Roxburgh, Esq., has been appointed by me to raise men for ...

— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper

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