[f. AUTHORIZE: see -ATION. (Also in mod.F.)] The conferment of legality; formal warrant, or sanction.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. City of God, 63. Ordained by … the authorization of the Chiefe Priest.
1827. Bentham, Ration. Evid., Wks. 1843, VII. 484. Authorization does away the fraud: what is authorized is legalized.
1835. J. Harris, Gt. Teacher (1837), 133. A mere adoption and authorization of pre-existing opinions.
1859. Merivale, Rom. Emp., xlviii. V. 435. Without a special authorization from the chief.
