<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To provide or send with credentials; designate officially: to accredit an envoy.</li><li>To certify (a school, college, or the like) as meeting all formal official requirements of academic excellence, curriculum, facilities, etc.</li><li>To make authoritative, creditable, or reputable; sanction.</li><li>To regard as true; believe.</li><li>To ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with): He was accredited with having said it.</li><li>To attribute or ascribe; consider as belonging: an invention accredited to Edison.</li></ul>