authenticke

Adjective

authentic (comparative more authentic, superlative most authentic)

1. Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
   • The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.

   Synonyms:

   genuine, real, bonafide, bona fide, unfaked

2. Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
   • an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information

   Synonyms:

   reliable, trustworthy, credible, unfaked

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...