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Definition of: authenticate
(ô·then′ti·kāt) v.t. ·cat·ed, ·cat·ing
1. To make genuine, credible, or authoritative.
2. To give legal force or validity to.
3. To establish or certify, as a book or painting, to be the work of a certain person.
—au·then′·ti·ca′tion noun
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