The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accredit \Ac*cred"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accredited; p. pr. & vb. n. Accrediting.] [F. accr['e]diter; [`a] (L. ad) + cr['e]dit credit. See Credit.]
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To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
His censure will . . . accredit his praises.
--Cowper.These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion.
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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.
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To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
--Sir G. C. Lewis.He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of accredit English)
Usage examples of "accrediting".
Between us we've come up with a list of thirty-four unaccredited institutions, and we've tentatively agreed that a new accrediting body is needed.
If the nine of us come up with thirty thousand each and we tap the others for whatever they can stand still for, we can set up a headquarters, hire a couple of retired academics with respectable degrees and establish an accrediting procedure.
If he was already considering not accrediting her status, she had nothing to lose, I’ll get Rilla out and we'll go south somewhere.
Even more mysterious was the accrediting of the screenplay to both Montreau and an unknown writer, Jeff Jones, a man who had miraculously come out of his coma after five years.
Jim Gaither acted with coolness and dispatch to protect us, by providing us with official journalists, documents predated to 1939, accrediting us to Life magazzine, which has in fact published a couple of.