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  1. adjective Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief: an authentic account by an eyewitness.
  2. adjective Having a claimed and verifiable origin or authorship; not counterfeit or copied: an authentic medieval sword.
  3. adjective Law Executed with due process: an authentic deed.
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  • And Sarah Palin insists she is authentic, the real deal, an "ordinary" American populist. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Although the recordings sounded authentic, the NPA decided to approach agencies that have a legal mandate to intercept telephone calls with a view to ascertaining whether they may have legally obtained recordings of the same conversations.
  • See authentic, ancient artifacts from around the globe, including Babylonian pieces dating back 4000 years, cuneiforms, scrolls, codices, manuscripts, bibles, and other religious antiquities.
  • On the other hand, you have people who layer borrowed minhagim upon themselves in a desperate attempt to become reinvented and authentic -- —  A Simple Jew
  • The tom yam they serve is really authentic, the soup is not the usual RED stuff you get but rather very light milky coloured soup, the common ingredients like lemon grass, red chilli padi are freshly added to prepare each bowl of tom yam. —  www.hardwarezone.com.sg
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English autentik, from Old French autentique, from Late Latin authenticus, from Greek authentikos, from authentēs, author.

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  1. Early modern English also authentick, autentic, etc., from Middle English autentike, auctentyke, from Old French autentique (modern F. authentique, being changed, like the English word, to suit the L. spelling) = Portuguese authentico = Spanish auténtico = Italian autentico, from Late Latin authenticus, from Greek αὐθεντικός, warranted, authentic, original, from αὐθίντι/α, original authority, from αὐθέντης, contr. from αὐτοέντης (rare), one who does anything with his own hand, the real author of any act, from αὐτός, self, + *ἑντης (found also in συνέντης, equivalent to συνεργός, a fellow-workman), of uncertain origin, perhaps from *σεντ-, from *ἀσαντ-, orig. form of Ionic ἐών, Attic ω῎ν (= Latin ens, *sens), present participle of εἰ̄ναι, be: see ens, be. Cf. effendi, also ult. from Greek αὐθέντης.
 

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