accredit (akredit)

t. [F. accréditer, earlier acrediter, accredit, Such were the principal terms of the surrender of Granada, as authenticated by the most accredited Castilian and Arabic authorities. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 15. His party will... protect and accredit him, in spite of conduct the most contradictory to their own principles. IMG:content-0154.png:[blocks in formation] Hence, specifically-3. To send with credentials, as an envoy. According to their rank, some agents of foreign governments are directly accredited to a sovereign, and others to his minister of foreign affairs. Woolsey , Introd. to Inter. Law, § 91. 4. To believe; accept as true. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions, and witchcraft, and po e ion, so silly, as well as monstrous, that they might have nauseated the coarsest appetite for wonder. Southey, Life of Wesley, II. 198. 5. To ascribe or attribute to; invest with the credit of: followed by with. Mr. Bright himself was accredited with having said that his own effort to arouse a reforming spirit.. was like flogging a dead horse. McCarthy, Hist. Own Times, xl. accredit a tet (a-kred'i-tāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. accredit a ted, ppr. accredit at ing. [As accredit + -ate2.] Same as accredit. She bowed, ki ing the Thracian's hands, who would not resist it, to accredit ate the beginnings of his Love to be of estimation. Sir A. Cokaine , tr. of Loredano, Dianea, IV. §3. ( N. E. D. ) accreditationt (a-kred-i-tā'shon), n . The act of accrediting, or the state of being accredited. Having received my instructions and letters of accredi tation from the Earl of Hills borough on the 17th day of April, 1780. Mem. of R. Cumber land , I. 417. (N. E. D.) accrementitial (ak"rē-men-tish'al), a. [L. as if * accrementum (found once, but a false reading), addition ( accrescere , increase: see ac cresce, and cf. excrement, increment), + E. -itial.] In physiol ., of or pertaining to the proce of acc remen titi on.