accredits

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.

   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.
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
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.

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