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/əkrˌɛdət/ Listen

verb

Accredit v. t. (past & past part. accredited; pres. part. accrediting)

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. "His censure will... accredit his praises." "These reasons... which accredit and fortify mine opinion."

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. "Beton... was accredited to the Court of France."

To believe; to credit; to put trust in. "The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century." "He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft."

To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. To accredit (one) with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.

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Etymology of 'Accredit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accredit" Quotes from Famous Books

... understood as resuscitations from a deathlike trance, should be welcomed by unprejudiced historical critics, as redeeming portions of the ancient record from mistaken disparagement as legendary. That further study may accredit as facts, or at least as founded on facts, some other marvels in that record cannot, except by arrant dogmatism, be pronounced improbable. Nevertheless, it cannot be expected that the legendary element, which both the Old and the New ...

— Miracles and Supernatural Religion • James Morris Whiton

... Account for what? I still hold the authenticity of nearly all the Pauline epistles, and that the Pauline Acts are compiled from some valuable source, from chap. xiii. onward; but it was gratuitous to infer that this could accredit the ...

— Phases of Faith - Passages from the History of My Creed • Francis William Newman

... king those five men who had suffered death in the character of traitors. The marriage of Anne to the king, it was suddenly discovered, had from the beginning been void. It is true that we have long ceased to accredit those objections from precontracts, &c., which in the papal courts would be held to establish a nullity. But we are to proceed by the laws as then settled. Grounds of scruple, which would now raise at most a mere case of irregularity, ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey