validate
VerbWordNet 3.0
Verb (4)
- declare or make legally validSynonyms: formalizeformalise
- prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
- give evidence forSynonyms: corroborate
- make valid or confirm the validity of“validate a ticket”
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Val′i·date transitive verb
Origin: See Valid.
To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.
The chamber of deputies... refusing to validate at once the election of an official candidate.— London Spectator
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54