authorize

authorize is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

[2] To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.

[3] To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.

[4] To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report. A woman`s story at a winter`s fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shak.

[5] To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.

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