Dictionary
au•then•ti•cate
Pronunciation: (ô-then'ti-kāt"), [key]—
v.t., -cat•ed, -cat•ing.
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.
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