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Authenticate   Listen
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Authenticate  v. t.  (past & past part. authenticated; pres. part. authenticating)  
1.
To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. "The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges."
2.
To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.





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"Authenticate" Quotes from Famous Books



... few words to the effect upon our law of the other mode of proof which I have mentioned. I mean charters. A charter was simply a writing. As few could write, most people had to authenticate a document [272] in some other way, for instance, by making their mark. This was, in fact, the universal practice in England until the introduction of Norman customs. /1/ With them seals came in. But as late as Henry II. they were said by the Chief Justice of England to belong properly ...
— The Common Law • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Words linked to "Authenticate" :   authenticator, demonstrate, attest, manifest, certify, authentication, verify, evidence


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