validate.
To render valid.
Meaning & usage
To render valid.
To check or prove the validity of; verify.
To have its validity successfully proven.
The data file cannot be imported because it doesn't validate.
Where this word comes from
First attested in 1648; borrowed from Medieval Latin validātus (“to validate”) (perhaps through Middle French valider), the perfect passive participle of validō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from validus + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, valid + -ate.
Valid, validated.
Where this word comes from
First attested in 1586; borrowed from Medieval Latin validātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymolgy 1 for more.
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