Devolving and Authorize

verb

• Grant authorization or clearance for.
  • usage: "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
  • synonyms: authorise, pass, clear
• Give or delegate power or authority to.
  • usage: "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers"
  • synonyms: empower, authorise

• (v.t.) To justify; to furnish a ground for.
• (v.t.) To clothe with authority, warrant or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
• (v.t.) To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
• (v.t.) To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
• (v.t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.