accredit · verb — to ascribe; attribute; credit with.
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accredit is pronounced /əˈkɹɛd.ɪt/.
Etymology
* First attested in the 1610s. * From French accréditer, from à (“to”) + to credit, from crédit (“credit”). * See credit.
verb
- To ascribe; attribute; credit with.e.g.“Nationalisms often accredit all the unemployment issues to immigration.”
- To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.e.g.“February 17, 1793, William Cowper, letter to Samuel Rose, Esq.
His censure will […] accredit his praises.”
- To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.e.g.“Beton […] was accredited to the Court of France.” — 1856–1870, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
- To believe; to put trust in.e.g.“He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.” — 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism:
- To enter on the credit side of an account book.
- To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.e.g.“The school was an accredited college.”
- To recognize as outstanding.
- To credit.
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