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/əkrˌɛdət/ Listen

verb

Accredit v. t. (past & past part. accredited; pres. part. accrediting)

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. "His censure will... accredit his praises." "These reasons... which accredit and fortify mine opinion."

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. "Beton... was accredited to the Court of France."

To believe; to credit; to put trust in. "The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century." "He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft."

To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. To accredit (one) with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accredit" Quotes from Famous Books

... had not been filled up, except by the appointment of a Charge-d'Affaires; it being one of the approved modes of snubbing a government to accredit a person of inferior rank to its court. Lord Danesbury detested this man with a hate that only official life comprehends, the mingled rancour, jealousy, and malice suggested by a successor, being a combination only known to men who serve ...

— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

... the possibility of a criterion of truth. An absolute criterion of truth must at once accredit itself, as well as other things. At a very early period in philosophy the senses were detected as being altogether untrustworthy. On numberless occasions, instead of accrediting, they discredit themselves. A stick, having a spark ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... the appointment of diplomatic agents could in several cases not be justly delayed. Therefore, without interfering with any colonies which were still fighting or still negotiating with Spain, the British Minister proposed to inform the Allied cabinets of the intention of this country to accredit agents to some of the South American Republics, and to recommend to them the adoption of a ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... lines? "Beauty is its own excuse for being"; and that Nature respects beauty is, to my mind, nothing less than fatal to the Darwinian hypothesis. That his law exists as a modifying influence I freely admit, and accredit him with an important addition to our thought upon such matters; that it is the sole formative influence I shall be better prepared to believe when I see that beauty is not regarded in Nature, but is a mere casual attendant upon use. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various