Word Meanings - DISAUTHORIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton.

Related words: (words related to DISAUTHORIZE)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• DISCREDITABLE
  Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.
• CREDIT FONCIER
  A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out
• DISCREDIT
  1. The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit. 2. Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons
• CREDITABLE
  1. Worthy of belief. Divers creditable witnesses deposed. Ludlow. 2. Deserving or possessing reputation or esteem; reputable; estimable. This gentleman was born of creditable parents. Goldsmith. 3. Bringing credit, reputation, or honor; honorable;
• CREDIT
  Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• CREDITABLY
  In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.
• DISCREDITOR
  One who discredits.
• CREDIT MOBILIER
  A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been
• CREDITABLENESS
  The quality of being creditable.
• CREDITRESS; CREDITRIX
  A female creditor.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• CREDITOR
  1. One who credits, believes, or trusts. The easy creditors of novelties. Daniel. 2. One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor. Creditors have better memories than debtors. Franklin.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• ACCREDIT
  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
• ACCREDITATION
  The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.
• UNCREDIT
  To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit. Fuller.
• UNCREDITABLE
  Discreditable.
• INCREDITED
  Uncredited.