Word Meanings - AUTHORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to an author. "The authorial Hare.
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- AUTHORITY
1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority - AUTHORESS
A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - AUTHORSHIP
1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs. - AUTHOR
auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2. - AUTHORIZABLE
Capable of being authorized. Hammond. - AUTHORIZED
1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. 2. Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be - AUTHORITATIVE
1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. 2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an - AUTHORIZE
1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. 2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage. 3. To establish - AUTHORLESS
Without an author; without authority; anonymous. - AUTHORIAL
Of or pertaining to an author. "The authorial Hare. - AUTHORLY
Authorial. Cowper. - AUTHORISM
Authoriship. - AUTHORIZE ONE'S SELF
, to rely for authority. Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney. - AUTHORIZER
One who authorizes. - AUTHORIZATION
The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. The authorization of laws. Motley. A special authorization from the chief. Merivale. - INAUTHORITATIVE
Without authority; not authoritative. - DISAUTHORIZE
To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton. - EXAUTHORATE
To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge. Exauthorated for their unworthiness. Jer. Taylor. (more info) dismiss; ex out + auctorare to bind to something, to hire, fr. - EXAUTHORATION
Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration. Jer. Taylor. - EXAUTHORIZE
To deprive of uthority. Selden. - UNAUTHORIZE
To disown the authority of; to repudiate.