Credentials

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  credentials
       n : a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts
           [syn: {certificate}, {certification}, {credential}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "credentials":
     ID card, badge, calligram, calling card, card, certification,
     character, countermark, countersign, documentation, documents,
     dog tag, endorsement, identification, identification badge,
     identification tag, initials, letter of introduction, monogram,
     papers, press card, recommendation, reference, sanction,
     serial number, signature, tessera, testimonial, visiting card,
     voucher
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and 
  establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to 
  whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can 
  be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. They 
  are, as it were, his letter of attorney, his mandate patent, mandatum 
  manifestum. Vattel, liv. 4, c. 6, Sec. 76.