2. To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait. Walpole.
AUTHENTICITY
Au`then*tic"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. authenticité.]
1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.
2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity, authenticity is often restricted in its use to the first of the above meanings, and distinguished from qenuineness.
AUTHENTICLY
Au*then"tic*ly, adv.
Defn: Authentically.
AUTHENTICNESS
Au*then"tic*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Hammond.
AUTHENTICS
Au*then"tics, n. (Ciwil Law)