validate

Verb
Synonyms: formalizeformalisecorroborate

WordNet 3.0

Verb (4)

  1. declare or make legally validSynonyms: formalizeformalise
  2. prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
  3. give evidence forSynonyms: corroborate
  4. make valid or confirm the validity of“validate a ticket”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Validate \Val"i*date\, v. t. [See Valid.] To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to. [1913 Webster]

The chamber of deputies . . . refusing to validate at once the election of an official candidate. --London Spectator. [1913 Webster]

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