A WORD A DAY.
AUTHENTIC. One .who dbes something with his own hand can vouch for its genuineness, so the Romans took.'the word, authenticus, coming from the real author, from 'the Greek authentes. Since' the author himself is trustworthy, the facts he deals with must be 'reliable .and truthfully presented. Authentic may mean, genuine as opposed to false or spurious, but it means' more, for that..which is authentic 'is not only not false, but authoritative, vested with all due formalities and legally attested. To authenticate a statement or a document is to give legal validity to it, to demonstrate the credibility of it, to prove its trustworthiness. We consider that an authentic copy of a book or manuscript is original, one of the first copies which left the author’s hand, without alterations or deletions. Au-then-tic is accented on the second syllable. Sound the au as in augur, e as in end, i as in tick. “The apocryphal gospel of St. Thomas is neither genuine nor authentic.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21178, 3 September 1930, Page 6
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166A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21178, 3 September 1930, Page 6
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