authorize vs rule out

authorize

verb
  • To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to. 

rule out

verb
  • To disallow. 

  • To reject an option from a list of possibilities. 

  • To make something impossible. 

  • To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler. 

  • To make unavailable. 

How often have the words authorize and rule out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )