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1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorise commissioners to settle a boundary.
2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorise a marriage.
3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorised by usage.
4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorise a report. "A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorised by her grandam." (Shak)
5. To justify; to furnish a ground for.
Origin: OE. Autorize, F. Autoriser, fr. LL. Auctorizare, authorisare. See Author.
(01 Mar 1998)
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