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Authenticate vs Notarize - What's the difference?

authenticate | notarize |

As verbs the difference between authenticate and notarize

is that authenticate is to render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit while notarize is to be witness of the authenticity of a document and its accompanying signatures in one's capacity as notary public.

authenticate

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
  • To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.

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    notarize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * notarise

    Verb

    (notariz)
  • to be witness of the authenticity of a document and its accompanying signatures in one's capacity as notary public