authentify

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verb

To authenticate.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verbauthentify (third-person singular simple present authentifies, present participle authentifying, simple past and past participle authentified)

present singular third person authentifies · participle present authentifying · participle past authentified · past authentified

  1. chiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo authenticate.

    In addition, other certification authorities may also be involved, e.g. to authentify or to certify software agents.

    2008 October 28, Daniel Le Métayer, “A Formal Privacy Management Framework”, in Pierpaolo Degano, Joshua Guttman, Fabio Martinelli, editors, Formal Aspects in Security and Trust, Springer, page 164
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    Then the device has to "phone" with the infrastructure of the supermarket, and must authentify the owner of the device in order to step forward the reading of the card.

    2007, Klaus Kornwachs, “Vulnerability of Converging Technologies: The Example of Ubiquitous Computing”, in Gerhard Banse, Armin Grunwald, Imre Hronszky, Gordon Nelson, editors, Assessing Societal Implications of Converigng Technological Development, Edition Sigma, page 59

    His seal has been inherited by his grandchildren, who no doubt use it to authentify their right of ownership when they sell family property.

    2009, Michael Tanret, “The Texts and the Seals”, in T. Abusch, M.J. Geller, S.M. Maul, F.A.M. Wiggermann, editors, The Seal of the Sanga: On the Old Babylonian sangas of Šamaš of Sippar-Jaḫrūrum and Sippar-Amnānum (Cuneiform Monographs), volume 40, Brill, →ISBN, page 67

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

Back-formation from authentification, itself an alteration of authentication.

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