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verb

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

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."

5.

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."

adjective

Authorized adj.

1.

Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.

2.

Sanctioned by authority.

The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be read in churches," and has been the accepted English Bible. The Revised Version was published in a complete form in 1855.

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"Authorized" Quotes from Famous Books

... army may be subsisted by regular magazines, by forced requisitions, or by authorized foraging [7] As has already been remarked, it is not always politic, or even possible, to provide regular magazines for the entire supplies of an army during the active operations of a campaign. On account of the great expense ...

— Elements of Military Art and Science • Henry Wager Halleck

... not recently been united to some continent. This view cuts the Gordian knot of the dispersal of the same species to the most distant points, and removes many a difficulty: but to the best of my judgment we are not authorized in admitting such enormous geographical changes within the period of existing species. It seems to me that we have abundant evidence of great oscillations of level in our continents; but not of such vast changes in their position and extension, ...

— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin

... frightful organization of labor we find in Sparta, combined with a community of goods! Let us recall the exposing of children authorized by law, the mode of education which must have cost the life of all whose constitution was weak, the cryptia, the stern hierarchy of age etc. Plut., Inst. Lac. 2, appreciates the bad taste of the black broth at its true value. The Cretan community ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher

... Under the commonwealth, a triumph could only be claimed by the general, who was authorized to take the Auspices in the name of the people. By an exact consequence, drawn from this principle of policy and religion, the triumph was reserved to the emperor; and his most successful lieutenants were satisfied with some marks ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon

... blood of persons absolutely innocent, it was not in his own interest, but in that of his brother, Edward IV. The rough and illegal retribution which he dealt out to Rivers, Vaughan, Hawte, Lord Richard Grey, and Lord Hastings was not more severe than perhaps law itself might have authorized. The disorders of civil war had accustomed the nation to see justice sometimes executed without the due formalities; and his neglect of those formalities had not hitherto made him unpopular. But the license of unchecked power is dangerous, ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8 - The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation • Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson

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