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authentic(dictionary)
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authentic (iou)



authentic adjective & noun. LME.
[Old French autentique (mod. authentique) from late Latin authenticus from Greek authentikos principal, genuine.]
A. adjective.
Of authority, authoritative; entitled to obedience or respect. LME-M19.
Ld Berners One of the moost autentyke men of the court of parlyment. Swift Some short plain authentick tract might be published.
Legally valid; legally qualified. LME-E18.
Shakespeare All's Well All the learned and authentic fellows. J. Flavel What is done by Commission is Authentick.
Entitled to belief as stating or according with fact; reliable, trustworthy. LME.
T. Norton To discredit so many authentike witnesses. A. J. P. Taylor The battles of El Alamein or Stalingrad only became fully authentic when they appeared on the [cinema] screen. Listener BBC1's Tenko was the most authentic representation to date of the Far East prisoner's life.
Real, actual, genuine; original, first-hand; really proceeding from its stated source, author, painter, etc. L15.
Milton Him who had stole Joves authentic fire E. Waugh A treasure house of period gems; pure authentic 1914. R. D. Laing To be 'authentic' is to be true to oneself, to be what one is, to be 'genuine'.
Own, proper. L16-M17.
G. Chapman Then Nestor cut the gears With his new-drawn authentic sword.
Music. Of a church mode: having sounds comprised between a final note and its octave (cf. PLAGAL). Of a cadence: perfect. E18.
b. noun.
An original or authoritative document. Long obsolete exc. as below. L15.
the Authentics a collection of enactments of Justinian.
An authority. rare. Only in E17.
authentical adjective (now rare or obsolete) = AUTHENTIC adjective M16.
authentically adverb L16.
authenticalness noun M17-M19.
authenticly adverb LME-M18.
authenticness noun M16.