accredit

accreditverb/əˈkɹɛd.ɪt/

• 1

  To ascribe; attribute; credit with.

  • Nationalisms often accredit all the unemployment issues to immigration.
  • Goldfaden continued to compose and compile dramas and musical plays. He is accredited with 26 pieces, of which, however, only eight are of any value.
• 2

  To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

  • February 17, 1793, William Cowper, letter to Samuel Rose, Esq. His censure will […] accredit his praises.
  • these reasons […] which accredit and fortify mine opinion.
• 3

  To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.

  • Beton […] was accredited to the Court of France.
• 4

  To believe; to put trust in.

  • He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
  • The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
• 5

  To enter on the credit side of an account book.

• 6

  To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.

  • The school was an accredited college.
• 7

  To recognize as outstanding.

• 8

  To credit.