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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Authorize \Au"thor*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Authorized}; p.
pr & vb n. {Authorizing}.] [OE. autorize, F. autoriser fr
LL auctorizare authorisare See {Author}.]
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.
{To authorize one's self}, to rely for authority. [Obs.]
Authorizing himself, for the most part upon other
histories. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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