Accredit vs Attest - What's the difference?
accredit | attest |
To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
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To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
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To believe; to put trust in.
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To enter on the credit side of an account book.
To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
To recognize as outstanding.
(literally) To credit.
To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
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* 1599 — Shakespeare, iii 1'' (Act ii in ''First Folio edition)
To certify by signature or oath
To certify in an official capacity.
To supply or be evidence of
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* 1599 — Shakespeare, Prologue'' (''First Folio edition)
To put under oath.
To call to witness; to invoke.
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between accredit and attest
is that accredit is to ascribe; attribute; credit with while attest is to affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.accredit
English
Verb
(en verb)- His censure will ... accredit his praises.
- These reasons ... which accredit and fortify mine opinion.
- Beton ... was accredited to the Court of France. -
- The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
- He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
- The school was an accredited college.
Derived terms
* accredit with * accreditation * accreditedattest
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Verb
(en verb)- When will the appraiser attest the date of the painting?
- facts attested by particular pagan authors
- Dishonour not your Mothers: now attest that those whom you call'd Fathers, did beget you.
- You must attest your will in order for it to be valid.
- Her fine work attested her ability.
- The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
- O pardon : since a crooked Figure may / Attest in little place a Million, / And let us, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke.
- The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state / Attests in oaths, and fears to violate.