verb

1. To ascribe; attribute; credit with.

2. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

3. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.

4. To believe; to put trust in.

5. To enter on the credit side of an account book.

6. To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.

   "The school was an accredited college."

7. To recognize as outstanding.

8. To credit.