ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Possessed of authority, acknowledged as authoritative; thoroughly established; highly esteemed.
c. 1399. Pol. Poems (1859), II. 13. Cassodre, whos writinge is auctorized, Seith.
c. 1534. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (1846), 27. Pomponius Lætus … the moste authorised of late writers.
1784. J. Barry, Lect. Art, vi. (1848), 209. The most authorised and surest observations which have fallen in my way.
1810. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 30. Received and authorized opinions.
2. Placed in (obs.) or endowed with authority.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, K vj. Knyghtes auctorysed and renommed.
1613. Withers, Abus. Stript, I. vi. More vile In men authoriz’d, than in those that be Borne to a lower fortune or degree.
1648. Milton, Tenure Kings, 235. The dragon gave to the beast his … authority; which beast so authorized most expound to be the tyrannical powers and kingdoms of the earth.
Mod. The arrangement was made by your own authorized agent.
3. Legally or duly sanctioned or appointed. Authorized Version of the Bible: a popular appellation of the version of 1611. (The Great Bible, 1540, and Bishops Bible (after 1572), actually bore on their titles ‘authorized and appointed,’ but that of 1611 has never claimed to be ‘authorized.’)
1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XV. iv. A cyte rych and auctorysed in thy lynage.
1538. Starkey, Eng., 181. That by no prerogatyfe he usurpe upon the pepul any authorysyd tyranny.
1794. Paley, Evid., II. ii. (1817), 24. Authorized assurances of the reality of a future existence.
1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 32. What is called our authorized version.
1879. Ruskin, Lett. Clergy, 39. This piece of authorized mockery.
