Crossword clues for authenticate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Authenticate \Au*then"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Authenticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Authenticating (?).] [Cf. LL. authenticare.]
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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.
--Burke. To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.
--Walpole.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"verify, establish the credibility of," 1650s, from Medieval Latin authenticatus, past participle of authenticare, from authenticus (see authentic). Related: Authenticated; authenticating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formality required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. 2 To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.
WordNet
v. establish the authenticity of something
Usage examples of "authenticate".
One of my few authenticated pieces of aeronautical information said that a plane must land into the wind.
Clarke has studied a similar case which was authenticated by an autopsy.
Penllyn Court, Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, South Wales, completed his one hundred and sixth year on March 16th, and died on the 11th of the present month--at the time of his death the oldest known individual of indisputably authenticated age, the oldest physician, the oldest member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and the oldest Freemason in the world.
The Royal College of Surgeons verified this record many years ago, and it was subsequently again authenticated by the authorities of the Freemasons, who thereupon enshrined his portrait in their gallery as the oldest living Freemason.
There is a case in French literature, apparently well authenticated, in which submersion for six minutes was followed by subsequent recovery.
The only well authenticated case in which the ureter alone was divided is the historic injury of the Archbishop of Paris, who was wounded during the Revolution of 1848, by a ball entering the upper part of the lumbar region close to the spine.
Once all the information was gathered and the piece was authenticated, an estimate was made, a blurb written, a photograph taken, and an auction lot number assigned.
The Fortune Teller, painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in the late fifteen hundreds, more recently examined and positively authenticated by Monsieur Armand Lafitte.
When the hasp is open or the lock icon is missing, the Web site is not authenticated as genuine, and any information transmitted is in the clear--that is, unencrypted.
One instance of their extortion would appear incredible, were it not authenticated by the legislator himself.
Bibles, a beautifully written manuscript that both refined and authenticated all subsequent versions, irrefutable proof of the distant origins of traditional Holy Scripture.
Judith and Holofernes and The Denial of Peter, as well as authenticating or condemning hundreds of others.
Armand and entrust him with something as delicate as authenticating a painting?
But with all these external differences I am aware that there will be objection to classifying it as a separate species, unless the osteological divergences can be satisfactorily determined, and for this purpose it would be necessary to examine a large series of authenticated skulls of the two kinds.
Biehl and after writing scores of letters to families, drafting and dispatching battle reports, and persuading Neabyl and Comyr to authenticate the numbers and sources of captured weapons, Lorn sits at the desk in his personal quarters, sipping a glass of Alafraan and studying the chaos-glass.