Antonyms for authenticate


Grammar : Verb
Spell : aw-then-ti-keyt
Phonetic Transcription : ɔˈθɛn tɪˌkeɪt


Definition of authenticate

Origin :
  • "verify, establish the credibility of," 1650s, from Medieval Latin authenticatus, past participle of authenticare, from authenticus (see authentic). Related: Authenticated; authenticating.
  • verb establish as real, genuine
Example sentences :
  • Every king had his own seal, which was used to authenticate his public acts.
  • Extract from : « Richard I » by Jacob Abbott
  • I will begin with some anecdotes which I am myself able to authenticate.
  • Extract from : « Stories of Animal Sagacity » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • That is all very well; but how can you authenticate your claim to the property?
  • Extract from : « The Honor of the Name » by Emile Gaboriau
  • To authenticate it, I have written and signed this marginal note.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 » by Various
  • To obtain a notary to authenticate the appeal was still harder.
  • Extract from : « A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II » by Henry Charles Lea
  • We mark with an asterisk the titles to editions which we have been able to authenticate by various means from actual books.
  • Extract from : « De Re Metallica » by Georgius Agricola
  • As few could write, most people had to authenticate a document in some other way, for instance, by making their mark.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • I give them to you that you may authenticate them and prevent anything spurious being published that might tend to defame me.
  • Extract from : « Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. » by Alfred H. Miles
  • My very passport was gone, so that I had actually nothing to authenticate my position—not even my name.
  • Extract from : « Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. » by Charles James Lever
  • Not even miracles can authenticate a religion which preaches monasticism and celibacy.
  • Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik

Synonyms for authenticate

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