accredited
[uh-kred-i-tid]
- officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, as of academic excellence: accredited schools.
- provided with official credentials, as by a government: an accredited diplomatic representative.
- accepted as authoritative: an accredited theory.
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accredit
[uh-kred-it]
- to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with): He was accredited with having said it.
- to attribute or ascribe; consider as belonging: an invention accredited to Edison.
- to provide or send with credentials; designate officially: to accredit an envoy.
- to certify (a school, college, or the like) as meeting all formal official requirements of academic excellence, curriculum, facilities, etc.
- to make authoritative, creditable, or reputable; sanction.
- to regard as true; believe.
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Origin of accredit
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Contemporary Examples
Both Haidak and Doe have been unable to transfer to accredited four-year universities.
For that fall, ABA-accredited law schools chose among 71,755 applicants--and there were only 173 accredited schools that year.
They are accredited by a national midwifery organization, the North American Registry of Midwives.
The list of accredited journalists for the trial confirms this.
It has about 100 students and is accredited to give degrees in nursing, theology, and music.
Historical Examples
The only advantage with which he accredited the city was that of possessing newspapers.
In the Heart of VosgesMatilda Betham-Edwards
Warning: Permit only an accredited employee of this company to touch wiring.
Made in TanganyikaCarl Richard Jacobi
We are accepting nothing but accredited calls until tomorrow.
A Yankee Flier Over BerlinAl Avery
In 1900 there were fifteen accredited women delegates in the convention.
That made me the accredited and accepted Ambassador to New Texas.
Lone Star PlanetHenry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
accredit
- to ascribe or attribute
- to give official recognition to; sanction; authorize
- to certify or guarantee as meeting required standards
- (often foll by at or to)
- to furnish or send (an envoy, etc) with official credentials
- to appoint (someone) as an envoy, etc
- NZ to pass (a candidate) for university entrance on school recommendation without external examinationthere are six accrediting schools in the area
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Word Origin
C17: from French accréditer, from the phrase mettre à crédit to put to credit
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Word Origin and History for accredited
adj.
"furnished with credentials," 1630s, past participle adjective from accredit (v.).
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