Having authority; possessing inherent authority; duly authorized; authoritative.Real; of genuine origin; being what it purports to be: opposed to pretended or imaginary, fictitious, counterfeit, apocryphal, or unauthorized: as, authentic documents.In law, executed with all due formalities; executed by the proper person and legally attested before the proper authorities: as, an authentic deed.Entitled to acceptance or belief; reliable; trustworthy; of established credit, credibility, or authority: as, an authentic tale, book, writer.Original; first-hand, as opposed to copied or transcribed.Own; proper; properly belonging to one's self.In music, having an immediate relation to the key-note or tonic: in distinction from plagal, which has a corresponding relation to the fifth or dominant in the octave below the key-note.n. An authoritative or genuine document or book.n. An original, as opposed to a copy or transcript.