Accredit
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In international law. To acknowledge. Used of the act by which a diplomatic agent is acknowledged by the government near which he is sent, which makes his public character known, and becomes his protection, and also of the act by which his sovereign, commissions him.