Definitions for accredit

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accredit ac·cred·it

Spelling: [uh-kred-it]

IPA: /əˈkrɛd ɪt/

Accredit is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in accredit (accdeirt).

Definitions for accredit

verb (used with object)

1. to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with):
2. to attribute or ascribe; consider as belonging:
3. to provide or send with credentials; designate officially:
4. to certify (a school, college, or the like) as meeting all formal official requirements of academic excellence, curriculum, facilities, etc.
5. to make authoritative, creditable, or reputable; sanction.
6. to regard as true; believe.

Origin of accredit

1610-20; earlier acredit Middle French acrediter. See ac-, credit

Examples for accredit

Regarded by Macedonian as a hotbed of much nationalism but little learning – the Macedonians refused to accredit it.

If I want human evidence to accredit the word of God, it is not the word of God to me.

The most obvious and palpable facts discredit these Judaists and accredit me.

Her appearance, if we are to accredit contemporary statements, must have been extremely singular.

They accredit that view with being strictly one, supposing that all qualified to arbitrate would acquiesce and agree in the same.

An absolute criterion of truth must at once accredit itself, as well as other things.

accredit, to give one credentials should be distinguished from credit, to believe what one says.

All evil do I accredit to thee: therefore do I desire of thee the good.

He could not accredit man's professions, or endorse his pretensions.

What an insult to the dignity of Scripture to imagine that any human seal or guarantee is necessary to accredit it to the soul!