Hypertext Webster Gateway: "validate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Validate \Val"i*date\, v. t. [See {Valid}.]
To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.
The chamber of deputies . . . refusing to validate at
once the election of an official candidate. --London
Spectator.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
validate
v 1: declare or make legally valid [syn: {formalize}, {formalise}]
[ant: {invalidate}]
2: prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something [ant:
{invalidate}]
3: give evidence for [syn: {corroborate}]
4: make valid or confirm the validity of, as of a document;
"validate a ticket" [ant: {invalidate}]
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