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authentick

authentick is the obsolete spelling of authentic.

Meaning of authentic

Adjective

authentic (comparative more authentic, superlative most authentic)

  1. Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
    • The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
  2. Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
    • an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information
  3. Designating a mode having the final as the lowest note.
  4. Designating a cadence in which the dominant chord precedes the tonic.
  5. (obsolete) Authoritative.
    • [T]here they find Ignatius, and then they beleeve him not for his ovvn Authority, but for a truths ſake, vvhich they derive from elſ vvhere: to vvhat end then ſhould they cite him as authentick for Epiſcopacie, vvhen they cannot knovv vvhat is authentick in him, but by the judgement vvhich they...1641 June or July, [John Milton], Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whither It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Vertue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late...

Forms of authentick

comparativemore authentick
superlativemost authentick

Words formed from authentick

Questions about authentick

What is authentick the obsolete spelling of?
Authentick is the obsolete spelling of authentic.

Words near authentick in the dictionary

  1. authenticization
  2. authenticize
  3. authenticized
  4. authenticizes
  5. authenticizing
  6. authentick
  7. authenticke
  8. authentickly
  9. authenticly
  10. authenticness
  11. authentics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: authentick (page history and authors); authentic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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