0 past simple and past participle of authenticate
1 to prove that something is real, true, or what people say it is:
Their punishment and segregation authenticated the social order and helped to establish the work ethic.
Both portray their protagonists as communicating the divine and both share a special interest in their role as authoritative teachers, authenticated by life-style and character.
The association of sediments and fossils became unstable unless it was recorded and authenticated.
In this paper, these two systems are unified to provide a model of authenticated interacting processes.
Readers should note that interim findings were authenticated by storytellers both during interviews and in follow-up sessions.
The latter also ensure that agents are properly authenticated and therefore present a first line of defence against malicious agents in open multi-agent systems.
Unlike a diploma, a writ is authenticated by the king's seal.
Three types of response are possible, according to whether it is the performer herself, the performer's audience, or an (absent) other who is being authenticated.