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verb

Authorize v. t. (past & past part. authorized; pres. part. authorizing)

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

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

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

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."

To justify; to furnish a ground for.

To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. (Obs.) "Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Authorize" Quotes from Famous Books

... Your sitters always tell you things, you know; and you are to be trusted. The case is here; our syndicate stand in with the railroad corporation and ask the Railroad Commissioners for a certificate of exigency, to authorize laying the new branch out through Wachusett. Now we have information that Staggchase and Stewart Hubbard and that set, are planning to spring a petition asking for special legislation locating the road ...

— The Philistines • Arlo Bates

... beautiful arms in painted glass. As these are so totally neglected, I propose making a push, and begging them of the Duke of Bedford. They would be magnificent for Strawberry-castle. Did I tell you that I have found a text in Deuteronomy to authorize my future battlements? "When thou buildest a new house, then shalt thou make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... troubles; but here, as the little girl said about the apple-core, there ain't a- goin' to be no succession. I am here to stay. Meanwhile, Fouche, I have an impression that you and Augureau took more pleasure out of my misfortunes than I did; wherefore I authorize you to send for Augereau and take him swimming in the vitriol tank. It will do you ...

— Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs

... family, or is confined in jail or the penitentiary for the period of one year or upward, the district court of the county where the husband or wife, so abandoned or not confined, resides, may, on application by petition setting forth fully the facts, authorize him or her, to manage, control, sell and encumber the property of the husband or wife for the support and maintenance of the family and for the purpose of paying debts. Notice of such proceedings shall be ...

— Legal Status Of Women In Iowa • Jennie Lansley Wilson

... country is, first, a demand sufficient to authorize the establishment of works extensive enough to make tiles at the best advantage; next, competent skill to direct and perform the labor; and, finally, the best machinery and fixtures for the purpose. ...

— Farm drainage • Henry Flagg French

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