authenticate

authentic +‎ -ate

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔ.ˈθɛn.tɪ.keɪt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑ.ˈθɛn.tɪ.keɪt/

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authenticate (third-person singular simple present authenticates, present participle authenticating, simple past and past participle authenticated)

1. (transitive) To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
2. (transitive) To prove authentic; to determine as real and true.

   He didn't manage to authenticate the portrait: it's probably a fake.

   the server could not authenticate the request

• authentify (which is a less common synonym)

• identify

• authentication

• authentification

authenticate (comparative more authenticate, superlative most authenticate)

1. Synonym of authentic.

• authenticate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913