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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AUTHEN'TIC,
AUTHEN'TICAL, a. [Low L. authenticus, from the Gr. from an author or maker; one who does any thing by his own right; also one who kills himself. The first syllable is from Gr. which is probably from the root of author, auctor; and the sense of self-murderer seems to indicate that the other constituent of the word is from Gr. to kill, but the primary sense of which is, to strike, to drive or thrust with the hand, etc. In the word before us, the sense is to throw, or to set; hence authentic is set, fixed, made or made certain by the author, by one's own self.]
1. Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, or counterfeit; being what it purports to be; genuine; true; applied to things; as an authentic paper or register.
2. Of approved authority; as an authentic writer.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; "an authentic account by an eyewitness"; "reliable information" [syn: authentic, reliable]
2: not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English autentik, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin authenticus, from Greek authentikos, from authent?s perpetrator, master, from aut- + -hent?s (akin to Greek anyein to accomplish, Sanskrit sanoti he gains) Date: 14th century 1. obsolete authoritative 2. a. worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact <paints an authentic picture of our society> b. conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features <an authentic reproduction of a colonial farmhouse> c. made or done the same way as an original <authentic Mexican fare> 3. not false or imitation ; real, actual <based on authentic documents> <an authentic cockney accent> 4. a. of a church mode ranging upward from the keynote — compare plagal 1 b. of a cadence progressing from the dominant chord to the tonic — compare plagal 2 5. true to one's own personality, spirit, or character • authentically adverb • authenticity noun Synonyms: authentic, genuine, bona fide mean being actually and exactly what is claimed. authentic implies being fully trustworthy as according with fact <an authentic account of the perilous journey>; it can also stress painstaking or faithful imitation of an original <an authentic reproduction> <authentic Vietnamese cuisine>. genuine implies actual character not counterfeited, imitated, or adulterated <genuine piety> <genuine maple syrup>; it also connotes definite origin from a source <a genuine Mark Twain autograph>. bona fide implies good faith and sincerity of intention <a bona fide offer for the stock>.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 a of undisputed origin; genuine. b reliable or trustworthy. 2 Mus. (of a mode) containing notes between the final and an octave higher (cf. PLAGAL). Derivatives: authentically adv. authenticity n. Etymology: ME f. OF autentique f. LL authenticus f. Gk authentikos principal, genuine

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Authentic Au*then"tic, a. [OE. autentik, OF. autentique, F. authentique, L. authenticus coming from the real author, of original or firsthand authority, from Gr. ?, fr. ? suicide, a perpetrator or real author of any act, an absolute master; a'yto`s self + a form "enths (not found), akin to L. sons and perh. orig. from the p. pr. of e'i^nai to be, root as, and meaning the one it really is. See Am, Sin, n., and cf. Effendi.] 1. Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register. To be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire. --Milton. 2. Authoritative. [Obs.] --Milton. 3. Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information. 4. (Law) Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested. 5. (Mus.) Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic. Syn: Authentic, Genuine. Usage: These words, as here compared, have reference to historical documents. We call a document genuine when it can be traced back ultimately to the author or authors from whom it professes to emanate. Hence, the word has the meaning, ``not changed from the original, uncorrupted, unadulterated:'' as, a genuine text. We call a document authentic when, on the ground of its being thus traced back, it may be relied on as true and authoritative (from the primary sense of ``having an author, vouched for''); hence its extended signification, in general literature, of trustworthy, as resting on unquestionable authority or evidence; as, an authentic history; an authentic report of facts. A genuine book is that which was written by the person whose name it bears, as the author of it. An authentic book is that which relates matters of fact as they really happened. A book may be genuine without being, authentic, and a book may be authentic without being genuine. --Bp. Watson. Note: It may be said, however, that some writers use authentic (as, an authentic document) in the sense of ``produced by its professed author, not counterfeit.''

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Authentic Au*then"tic, n. An original (book or document). [Obs.] ``Authentics and transcripts.'' --Fuller.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine. ...authentic Italian food... They have to look authentic. = genuine, real ? fake, imitation ADJ: usu ADJ n • authenticity There are factors, however, that have cast doubt on the statue's authenticity. N-UNCOUNT: usu with poss 2. If you describe something as authentic, you mean that it is such a good imitation that it is almost the same as or as good as the original. ...patterns for making authentic frontier-style clothing. ADJ: usu ADJ n [approval] 3. An authentic piece of information or account of something is reliable and accurate. I had obtained the authentic details about the birth of the organization. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Genuine, real, true, veritable, pure, uncorrupted, unadulterated, not false, not spurious, not fictitious, not apocryphal, what it purports to be. 2. Trustworthy, reliable, authoritative, veritable, true, accurate, according to the facts, accordant with fact, not garbled, not tampered with, from competent and trustworthy sources, from the original data, that cannot be questioned, of approved authority, to be depended on, worthy of belief.

Moby Thesaurus

Christian, aboveboard, absolute, accepted, accurate, actual, adducible, admissible, approved, attestative, attestive, authoritative, avant-garde, based on, bona fide, candid, canonical, card-carrying, cathedral, certain, circumstantial, cognizable, conclusive, conventional, convincing, correct, creative, credible, cumulative, customary, damning, de facto, decisive, dependable, determinative, dinkum, documentary, documented, evangelical, evidential, evidentiary, ex cathedra, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, fair and square, faithful, final, firm, firsthand, following the letter, for real, founded on, foursquare, fresh, genuine, good, good-faith, grounded on, hearsay, historical, honest, honest-to-God, imaginative, implicit, inartificial, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, irresistible, knowable, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, magisterial, material, natural, naturalistic, new, novel, nuncupative, of the faith, official, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, original, orthodox, orthodoxical, overwhelming, positive, presumptive, probative, proper, pukka, pure, questionless, real, realistic, received, recognizable, reliable, revolutionary, right, rightful, scriptural, significant, simon-pure, simple, sincere, single-hearted, solid, sound, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, standard, sterling, straight, straight-shooting, substantial, suggestive, sure, sure-enough, symptomatic, telling, textual, traditional, traditionalistic, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, true-blue, trustworthy, trusty, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeniable, underived, undisguised, undisguising, undisputed, undistorted, undoubted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unique, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unquestionable, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, up-and-up, valid, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, veritable, very, weighty, word-for-word