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authorise

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v.1.grant authorization or clearance for. Same as authorize.
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Verb1.authorise - give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers"
empower, authorize
entitle - give the right to; "The Freedom of Information Act entitles you to request your FBI file"
appoint, charge - assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
sanction - give authority or permission to
2.authorise - grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
authorize, clear, pass
countenance, permit, allow, let - consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
approbate - approve or sanction officially
certificate - authorize by certificate
approve, O.K., okay, sanction - give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"
declare - authorize payments of; "declare dividends"
licence, license, certify - authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
commission - charge with a task
validate, formalise, formalize - declare or make legally valid


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The lawgiver and the politician therefore should know well what preserves and what destroys a democracy or an oligarchy, for neither the one nor the other can possibly continue without rich and poor: but that whenever an entire equality of circumstances [1310a] prevails, the state must necessarily become of another form; so that those who destroy these laws, which authorise an inequality in property, destroy the government.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorise in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relation; but still they cannot be equals.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
But if otherwise-- if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context
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