validate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb declare or make legally valid
    formalize; formalise.
  2. verb prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
  3. verb give evidence for
    corroborate.
  4. verb make valid or confirm the validity of
    • validate a ticket

WordNet

Val"i*date transitive verb
Etymology
See Valid.
Definitions
  1. To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.
    The chamber of deputies . . . refusing to validate at once the election of an official candidate. London Spectator.

Webster 1913