The giving of credentials.
The granting of approval to an institution of higher learning by an official review board after the school has met certain requirements.
The act of accrediting.
Credence table.
The preparation and preliminary oblation of the Eucharistic bread and wine in the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.
The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (“sphere”) (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).