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authourize

authourize is the obsolete spelling of authorize.

Meaning of authorize

Verb

authorize (third-person singular simple present authorizes, present participle authorizing, simple past and past participle authorized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, ambitransitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.
    • The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
    Synonyms:
    license, permit

Forms of authourize

third-person singular presentauthourizes
present participleauthourizing
past participleauthourized
pastauthourized

Questions about authourize

What is authourize the obsolete spelling of?
Authourize is the obsolete spelling of authorize.

Words near authourize in the dictionary

  1. authoured
  2. authouress
  3. authouresses
  4. authourities
  5. authourity
  6. authourize
  7. authourized
  8. authourizes
  9. authourizing
  10. authours
  11. authourship

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: authourize (page history and authors); authorize (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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