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accredit

[ uh-kred-it ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to provide or send with credentials; designate officially:
to accredit an envoy.
to certify (a school, college, or the like) as meeting all formal official requirements of academic excellence, curriculum, facilities, etc.
to make authoritative, creditable, or reputable; sanction.
to regard as true; believe.
to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with ):
He was accredited with having said it.
to attribute or ascribe; consider as belonging:
an invention accredited to Edison.

accredit

/ əˈkrɛdɪt /

to ascribe or attribute
to give official recognition to; sanction; authorize
to certify or guarantee as meeting required standards
often foll byat or to
1. to furnish or send (an envoy, etc) with official credentials
2. to appoint (someone) as an envoy, etc
to pass (a candidate) for university entrance on school recommendation without external examination
there are six accrediting schools in the area

First recorded in 1610–20; earlier acredit, from Middle French acrediter; ac-, credit

C17: from French accréditer, from the phrase mettre à crédit to put to credit

The most obvious and palpable facts discredit these Judaists and accredit me.

An absolute criterion of truth must at once accredit itself, as well as other things.

Those who have grown it in the several grape districts of New York accredit the vines with about all the faults a grape can have.

But the doctor being himself in an unusually amiable attitude, was inclined to accredit others with a like share of good temper.

He hopelessly began to accredit to Divinity the measure of his own fallibility.

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