AUTHORIZE

Au″thor‐ize (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Authorized (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Authorizing.] [[OE. autorize, F. autoriser, fr. LL. auctorizare, authorisare. See Author.]] 1. 1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
2. 2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
3. 3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
4. 4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shak. 5. 5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.
To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney.