autorisé

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See also: autorise

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /o.tɔ.ʁi.ze/
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Adjective

autorisé (feminine autorisée, masculine plural autorisés, feminine plural autorisées)

  1. authoritative, authorised, authorized, qualified (that has authority)
    • 1917 January, Ernest Denis, La Question d'Autriche; Les Slovaques [The Question of Austria: The Slovaks] (Hardcover (6 inches)), Paris: Éditions Delagrave, page 96:
      Les slavistes les plus autorisés ont immédiatement flairé les intentions secrètes du traducteur magyar.
      The most authoritative Slavists immediately sensed the secret intentions of the Hungarian translator.
    • 1972 November, Italo Calvino, translated by Jean Thibeaudeau, Les Villes invisibles [Invisible Cities], Giulio Einaudi, published 1974, page 131:
      L’enfer qui couve dans le plus profond sous-sol de Bersabée est une ville dessinée par les architectes les plus autorisés, construite avec les matériaux les plus chers sur la place ; elle fonctionne dans chacun de ses mécanismes, mouvements d’horlogerie, engrenages, elle est décorée de glands, de franges et de volants suspendus à chaque tube et chaque bielle.
      The hell that smoulders in the deepest basement of Beersheba is a city designed by the most authoritative architects, built with the most expensive materials in the place; it functions in each of its mechanisms, watch or clock movements, gears, it is decorated with tassels, fringes and flounces suspended from each pipe and connecting rod.
  2. accredited, authoritative, authorised, authorized, patented, founded, official, legitimate, recognized, reliable (that relies on a recognized authority)
    Synonyms: accrédité, fondé, légitime, officiel, patenté, reconnu
    De source autorisée. ― From an authoritative source.

Participle

autorisé (feminine autorisée, masculine plural autorisés, feminine plural autorisées)

  1. past participle of autoriser

Further reading

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Verb

autorisé m (pl autorisés, f autoriseda, fpl autorisedes)

  1. Alternative form of autoriser
  2. past participle of autoriser
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