accredit
verb (used with object)
to provide or send with credentials; designate officially.
had accredited
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past perfectof accredit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited to the Control Council, but simply a purchasing mission with passports visaed by the Soviet occupation authorities.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is built round an outer and an inner courtyard and could house a thousand, rather than the hundred with which its owner had accredited it.
From The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont by Robert Barr
"I deem it prudent to close one's eyes against the orders which English mercantile vessels have received to quit Russian ports," said General Savary, whom Napoleon had accredited to the Emperor Alexander.
From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot
The sufficiency was that God had accredited certain men to bear to their fellow-men a certain document, a new covenant.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
Fancy seemed uneasy under the infliction of this household moralizing, which might tend to damage the airy-fairy nature that Dick, as maiden shrewdness told her, had accredited her with.
From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Thomas Hardy
