accredit

To ascribe; attribute; credit with.

Nationalisms often accredit all the unemployment issues to immigration.

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

February 17, 1793, William Cowper, letter to Samuel Rose, Esq. His censure will […] accredit his praises.

these reasons […] which accredit and fortify mine opinion.

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.

Beton […] was accredited to the Court of France.

To believe; to put trust in.

He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.

The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.

To enter on the credit side of an account book.