AUTHORIZE Copy link • AUTHORIZEalicui copiam dare or potestatem facere: to do anything, aliquid faciendi: alicujus rei faciendae licentiam dare or permittere: mandare alicui, ut (to commission him to do it). To be authorizrd to do anything, potestatem aliquid faciendi habere, sometimes mandatahabere ab aliquo. Make anything legal or right: sancire: ratum facere or efficere: ratum esse jubere. Often by circumlocution with nulla est excusatio alicujus rei, si, etc. Friendship can not authorize the commission of sin, nulla est excusatio peccati, si amici causa peccaveris; or turpis excusatio est et minime accipienda, si quis se amici causa peccasse futeatur. Sometimes probare, comprobare (to apirrove of; as in, “desires which reason does not authorize”). Some people consider that a great reason authorizes sin, quidam excusari se arbitrantur, quia non sine magna causa peccaverunt: their speeches authorize me to hope, eorum sermonibus adducor ut sperem, etc. To think himself authorized to do anything, sibi jus datum, or potestatem datam putare: not to think himself authorized, non fas esse ducere, haud licitum sibi aliquid putare.