authorize (now more usually authorise)

t. [Eng. author; -ize. In Fr. au to riser; Sp. autorizar; Port. autorisar; Ital. autorizzare; from Lat. auctoro = to produce; from auctor.] [AUTHOR.] I. Of authority given to persons: 1. To give a person warrant or legal or moral authority to act in a particular way permanently; or to do so temporarily, till a certain commi ion is executed. declared that he was authorized , by those who had sent him, to a ure the Lords that..."- Macau lay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xxiii. 2. To give one that authority, influence, or credit which the po e ion of character, knowledge, or years does; or to a truthful person belief when he makes statements founded on his personal observation. II. Of authority given to things: 1. To give legal sanction to anything. "Lawful it is to devise any ceremony, and to authorize any kind of regiment, no special commandment being thereby violated."-Hooker, 2. To give the sanction of custom or public opinion to. "Those forms are best which have been longest received and authorized in a nation by custom and use." " -Temple . IMG:content-0908.png:[blocks in formation] authorizable-auto-de-fe "His rudene so with his authorized youth Did livery falsene in a pride of truth." Shakesp.: A Lover's Complaint. Authorised Version of the Bible, or simply Authorised Version. The version of the Bible into English, made at the suggestion of James I. by forty-seven learned divines. It took three years-viz., from 1607 to 1610 to execute, and was first published in 1611. It is the only one "appointed to be read in churches," and till quite recently its title-page contained the words "printed by authority." It has held its place so long more by its own great merits than by the artificial support of law; and while there are numerous minute defects, which have been corrected in the Revised Version of the New Testament, it remains, in all e ential respects, the same Bible which for very nearly three centuries has been the most potent factor in the spiritual education of the English speaking race. âu-thor-iz-ing, âu'-thor-iş-ing, pr. par. [AUTHORIZE.] âu'-thor-le , adj. [Eng. author -le .] Without an author or authors, anonymous. "The false aspersions some authorle tongues have laid upon me."-Sir E. Sir E. Sackville , Guardian, 133.