Word Meanings - FOUNDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

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• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• 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.
• 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.
• FOUNDATIONLESS
  Having no foundation.
• 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.
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• 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.