AUTHENTICATE


Meaning of AUTHENTICATE in English

— authenticatable , adj. — authentication , n.

/aw then"ti kayt'/ , v.t., authenticated, authenticating .

1. to establish as genuine.

2. to establish the authorship or origin of conclusively or unquestionably, chiefly by the techniques of scholarship: to authenticate a painting.

3. to make authoritative or valid.

[ 1565-75; authenticatus made authentic (ptp. of authenticare ). See AUTHENTIC, -ATE 1 ]

Syn. 1. confirm, validate, substantiate.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .