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Definition of authorize : 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. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
3. To justify; to furnish a ground for.
4. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
5. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.

Synonyms:

extend, slip away, acquit, perish, buy the farm, go past, crystallize, invest, net, qualify, give, return, make, snuff it, blow over, give-up the ghost, elucidate, lapse, make pass, top, go by, choke, kick the bucket, hand, die, come about, gain, sack up, turn over, pass, glide by, slide by, elapse, egest, sack, surpass, travel by, enlighten, exit, brighten, devolve, hap, gift, reach, realize, exonerate, transcend, pass along, assoil, authorise, go, fall out, solve, fall, pass on, drop dead, pop off, pull in, crystalise, go along, light up, overstep, put across, OK, eliminate, go on, unclutter, pass by, guide, fade, realise, exceed, clear up, occur, run, make it, endue, overtake, indue, straighten out, cash in one's chips, accredit, slip by, go across, shed light on, sink, spend, earn, discharge, legislate, draw, overhaul, clear, take in, sort out, croak, pass away, crystallise, bring in, go through, decease, endow, communicate, illuminate, evanesce, take place, happen, fleet, crystalize, excrete, exculpate, pass off, expire, conk

allow, facilitate

charge, consign, assign, appoint, delegate, name, entrust

motivate, power, affect, command, lead, bias, master, influence, control, prejudice, empower, pressure, sway, predominate

condone, release, tolerate, let, concede

enfranchise, entitle, agree, commission, designate, bless, enable, deputize, countersign, notarize, denominate, ordain, warrant, license

invigorate, enforce, rouse, strengthen, study atcommission, energize

approve, affirm, confirm, authenticate, endorse, consent, underwrite, permit, approbate, assent, ratify, validate, accept, certify, sanction

Usage examples:

• The Emperor called it the crime of war; and I heard him often express in most vehement terms the horror with which it inspired him, which was so extreme that at no time did he authorize it during his long series of triumphs. - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton.
• Can Congress, in regulating commerce among the several States, authorize the transportation of articles from one State, and their sale in another, which they have not power so to authorize in any State? - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.
• The legislature, influenced more strongly with the same apprehensions, has restrained the Directors, as the Directors have restrained their servants, and have gone so far as to call in the power of the Lords of the Treasury to authorize the acceptance of any bills beyond an amount prescribed in the act. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VIII. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.