Authorizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Authorize \Au"thor*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Authorized}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Authorizing}.] [OE. autorize, F. autoriser, fr.
     LL. auctorizare, authorisare. See {Author}.]
     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.


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     2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as,
        to authorize a marriage.
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     3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion;
        to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
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     4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to
        warrant; as, to authorize a report.
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              A woman's story at a winter's fire,
              Authorized by her grandam.            --Shak.
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     5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. --Locke.
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     {To authorize one's self}, to rely for authority. [Obs.]
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              Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other
              histories.                            --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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