Authentical
(Au*then"tic*al) a. Authentic. [Archaic]
Authentically
(Au*then"tic*al*ly), adv. In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.
Authenticalness
(Au*then*tic*al*ness), n. The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Barrow.
Authenticate
(Au*then"ti*cate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Authenticated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Authenticating ] [Cf.
LL. authenticare.]
1. To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or
sufficient to entitle to credit.
The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges.
Burke.
2. To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait. Walpole.
Authenticity
(Au`then*tic"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. authenticité.]
1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.
2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity, authenticity is often restricted in its
use to the first of the above meanings, and distinguished from qenuineness.
Authenticly
(Au*then"tic*ly) adv. Authentically.
Authenticness
(Au*then"tic*ness), n. The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Hammond.
Authentics
(Au*then"tics) n. (Ciwil Law) A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian,
by an anonymous author; — so called on account of its authenticity. Bouvier.
Author
(Au"thor) n. [OE. authour, autour, OF. autor, F. auteur, fr. L. auctor, sometimes, but erroneously,
written autor or author, fr. augere to increase, to produce. See Auction, n.]
1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an
originator.
Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.
Milton.
2. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Johnson.
3. The editor of a periodical. [Obs.]
4. An informant. [Archaic] Chaucer.
Author
(Au"thor) v. t.
1. To occasion; to originate. [Obs.]
Such an overthrow . . . I have authored.
Chapman.
2. To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.]
More of him I dare not author.
Massinger.
