What does "authorize" mean?
Authorize: To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
Additional senses
- 2.To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
- 3.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. Shak.
- 4.To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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