authenticate

t. [Eng. authentic; -ate. In Fr. authentiquer Sp. autenticar; Port. authenticar; Ital. autenticare.] 1. To give proper validity to any document, as by signing the name to it, or going through any other formalities needful to impart to it authority. "To Correspondents. No notice can be taken of anonymous communications. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and addre of the writer; not r; not nece arily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith."- Standing intima tion in Times Newspaper. 2. In a more general sense: To impart such authority to anything as to render it valuable or trustworthy. replete with research and authenticated by "-Warton: Hist. of Kidding curious evidences, ton, Pref., p. vi. IMG:content-0905.png:[blocks in formation]