Authorize: alternatives and connections

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Approved.

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To show to be real or true; to prove.

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A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.

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To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.

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The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.

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To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle…

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To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.

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a legal document giving official permission to do something

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Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry…

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Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; es…

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To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

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Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…

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Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…

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The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.

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The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.

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One who authorizes.

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One who authorizes.

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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try an…

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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