accredit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb grant credentials to
    recognize; recognise.
    • The Regents officially recognized the new educational institution
    • recognize an academic degree
  2. verb provide or send (envoys or embassadors) with official credentials
  3. verb ascribe an achievement to
    credit.
    • She was not properly credited in the program

WordNet

Ac*cred"it transitive verb
Etymology
F. accréditer; à (L. ad) + crédit credit. See Credit.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Accredited; present participle & verbal noun Accrediting
Definitions
  1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
    His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper.
    These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton.
  2. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
    Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.
  3. To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
    The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis.
    He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.
  4. To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.

Webster 1913