To recognize as outstanding.
To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
To enter on the credit side of an account book.
To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
To credit.
To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
To believe; to put trust in.
To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.