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To authorize one's self

Authorize \Au"thor*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Authorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Authorizing.] [OE. autorize, F. autoriser, fr. LL. auctorizare, authorisare. See Author.]

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

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

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

  4. 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.

  5. To justify; to furnish a ground for.
    --Locke.

    To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. [Obs.]

    Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories.
    --Sir P. Sidney.