Authórize, 1) to justify: “--ing thy trespass with compare,” Sonn. 35, 6. “his rudeness so with his --d youth did livery falseness in a pride of truth,” Compl. 104.
2) to accredit: “a woman's story at a winter's fire, --d by her grandam,” Mcb. III, 4, 66.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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