accredit

Verb

accredit (third-person singular simple present accredits, present participle accrediting, simple past and past participle accredited)

1. (transitive) To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
   • Nationalisms often accredit all the unemployment issues to immigration.
   • Goldfaden continued to compose and compile dramas and musical plays. He is accredited with 26 pieces, of which, however, only eight are of any value.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 454

   Synonyms:

   chalk up to, impute, put down to, ascribe, attach, attribute, charge, draw, lay, repose

2. (transitive) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
   • February 17, 1793, William Cowper, letter to Samuel Rose, Esq.
     His censure will […] accredit his praises.
   • these reasons […] which accredit and fortify mine opinion.1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (transitive) 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.1856–1870, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC
4. (transitive) To believe; to put trust in.
   • He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism
   • The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.1855, George Cornewall Lewis, Enquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History
5. (transitive) To enter on the credit side of an account book.
6. (transitive) To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
   • The school was an accredited college.
7. (transitive) To recognize as outstanding.
8. (literally, transitive) To credit.