[kri-den-shuh
l] 
| 1. | Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted. |
| 2. | anything that provides the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc. |
| 3. | to grant credentials to, esp. educational and professional ones: She has been credentialed to teach math. |
| 4. | providing the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc. |
| un·cre·den·tialed (ŭn'krĭ-děn'shəld) abbr. Not having proper credentials: "the ministrations of uncredentialed healers" (James S. Gordon). |