Accredit vs Mandate - What's the difference?
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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.
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
As verbs the difference between accredit and mandate
is that accredit is to ascribe; attribute; credit with while mandate is to authorize.As a noun mandate is
an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.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.