Word Meanings - ACCREDIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. 2. To send with letters credential, as an

Additional info about word: ACCREDIT

1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. 2. 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. Froude. 3. To believe; to credit; to put trust in. The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey. 4. To credit; to vouch for or consider as doing something, or as belonging to some one. To accredit with , to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACCREDIT)

• Depute
• Appoint
• commission
• charge
• entrust
• delegate
• authorize
• accredit
• constitute

Related words: (words related to ACCREDIT)

• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• ACCREDIT
  1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. 2. To send with letters credential, as an
• ACCREDITATION
  The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• COMMISSIONAIRE
  1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• APPOINTOR
  The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
• APPOINTIVE
  Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
• APPOINT
  To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare,
• COMMISSION
  1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South. 2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• DELEGATE
  delegate; de- + legare to send with a commission, to depute. See 1. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. One elected by the people of a territory to
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• COMMISSIONAL; COMMISSIONARY
  Of pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant. Delegate or commissionary authority. Bp. Hall.
• APPOINTABLE
  Capable of being appointed or constituted.
• CHARGEOUS
  Burdensome. I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, .
• AUTHORIZED
  1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. 2. Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• SUBDELEGATE
  A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• NONCOMMISSIONED
  Not having a commission. Noncommissioned officer , a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;