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authenticate

[ aw-then-ti-keyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, au·then·ti·cat·ed, au·then·ti·cat·ing.

to establish as genuine.
Synonyms: substantiate, validate, confirm
to establish the authorship or origin of conclusively or unquestionably, chiefly by the techniques of scholarship:
to authenticate a painting.
to make authoritative or valid.

authenticate

/ ɔːˈθɛntɪˌkeɪt /

au·thenti·cata·ble adjective
nonau·thenti·cated adjective
nonau·thenti·cation noun
reau·thenti·cate verb (used with object) reauthenticated reauthenticating
self-au·thenti·cating adjective
unau·thenti·cated adjective
well-au·thenti·cated adjective

First recorded in 1565–75; from Medieval Latin authenticātus “made authentic” (past participle of authenticāre ). See authentic, -ate ¹

Without presidential intervention, the committee would certainly authenticate the Stalwart delegation.

“Her mission was to authenticate every fact,” says Dr. Eakin, a retired math professor.

The NCC is supposed to “authenticate” the shutdown via “a series of questions.”

The government used Simmons to authenticate 11 overt acts in the racketeering indictment of Welch and his deputy.

To authenticate his Vanity Fair article about interrogation tactics, Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded.

Not even miracles can authenticate a religion which preaches monasticism and celibacy.

Genius has availed only to authenticate itself as the normal activity of man, not yet to do the work of the world.

It was nothing unusual abroad to give cases, and to authenticate them with the names of the sufferers.

Macknight really did authenticate for himself the efficacy of impression with almost incredible feats of visual bravery.

When you receive a letter, you authenticate the period of receiving it, but not the date of a letter received by another.

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