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accredit, v.|əˈkrɛdɪt|
Also 7 acredit.
[a. Fr. accrédite-r, earlier acréditer Cotgr. = mettre à crédit, f. à to + crédit credit. Occurs in 7, but not in general use till late in 8. In no Dict. bef. Todd 1818.]
1. To put or bring into credit, to set forth as credible; to vouch for, sanction, or countenance.
1620Shelton Don Quixote II. iv. vi. 65 As well by these reasons as by many other..which acredit and fortifie mine opinion. c1775Cowper Let. 43 (T.) His censure will (to use the new diplomatic phrase) accredit his praises. 1802Howard in Phil. Trans. 175 The exhibition of this stone..did not tend to accredit the account of its descent. 1822Southey in Q. Rev. XXVIII. 29 The prediction of calamities for France accredited these dreams. 1850A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art 223 It was not sufficiently accredited for a church legend. 1879Gladstone Sp. at Glasgow 6 Dec. [His] mode of action at the Cape of Good Hope does not tend to accredit his advice in Affghanistan.
2. To send forth with credentials, to furnish with letters of credit; to recommend by documents as an envoy or messenger. Const. to, at.
c1794Mathias Pursuits of Lit. 320 (1798) He represents the opinions of a very large portion of their body by whom he is accredited. 1852Gladstone Gleanings IV. vi. 144 There are representatives of Portugal and Spain, accredited from Sovereigns themselves symbols of the popular principle. 1860Motley Netherlands II. xviii. 432 (1868) The sovereign to whom I am accredited. 1863Kinglake Crimea I. vi. 89 (1876) There was a prospect of his being accredited at St. Petersburg.
3. a. To accredit one with something: To accredit it as his, to vouch for his being the owner or author of it; to ascribe or attribute it to him.
1864Morning Star 13 June 4 Whenever topics fail them these worthy gentlemen fall back upon his Royal Highness and accredit him with the most wonderful sayings and doings. 1880McCarthy Hist. own Times III. 208 Mr. Bright himself was accredited with having said that his own effort to arouse a reforming spirit..was like flogging a dead horse.
b. To attribute (a thing) to a person. U.S.
1876A. Wilder in R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. p. xxvii, To the fanatical hordes of Islam..is to be accredited the extinction of the Mystic Orgies of the East. 1900N. & Q. 9th Ser. 22 Dec. 487/1 The introduction of the name [Columbia] as a poetic title for the United States is to be accredited to Dr. Timothy Dwight.
▸ trans. Educ. (orig. U.S.). To certify (a school, course, etc.) as meeting standards laid down by external assessors or regulators. Cf. accredited adj.
1897Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois) 8 Nov. 3/6 The University..would prefer to accredit a small high school with less than the amount required for admission to the University than with the full amount less thoroughly done. 1916Bull. Univ. New Mexico ((Educ. Ser.)) 1 262 The University reserves the right to accredit a school partially and to reconsider or modify the accrediting at any time in case of deterioration of work. 1944A. Campbell Guidance Practices in Four Year Accredited Negro High Schools of Missouri i. 13 This study is limited to the forty-six accredited four-year Negro high schools in Missouri that are accredited by the State Department of Education. 2001Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 27/1 Similarly, the Engineering Council..refuses to accredit engineering courses on which fewer than 60 per cent of the students have at least three Cs or, in the case of four-year MEng degrees, three Bs. |