credited

1. 1
   verb

   Past participle of credit.

   The discovery has long been credited to a single overlooked chemist.

   Their accounts were credited before the bank closed for the holiday.

   Note

   Here the form does a verb's work. It follows have in perfect tenses and be in the passive. It carries every meaning of credit as a verb: believing a claim, adding money to an account, acknowledging a contribution, bringing honor. Two attribution patterns are easily confused. A discovery is credited to a person, while a person is credited with a discovery, so the preposition flips with the subject.

2. 2
   adjective

   Officially recognized as the person to whom a work or achievement is attributed.

   He remained the credited inventor even after the patent dispute reached court.

   The credited director had almost nothing to do with the final edit.

   Similaracknowledged, recognized, official

   Oppositeuncredited, unacknowledged

   Note

   Latin credere, "to trust in," sits behind it: to be credited is, at root, to be trusted with a deed. As an adjective it stands before a noun, as in the credited director or the credited inventor, and names whoever holds the official claim, whatever the facts turn out to be. After a form of be, as in "credited with the invention," the word is acting as the verb's past participle instead.

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