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Author [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who produces, creates, or brings into being; as, God is the author of the Universe.

2. The beginner, former, or first mover of any thing; hence, the efficient cause of a thing. It is appropriately applied to one who composes or writes a book, or original work, and in a more general sense, to one whose occupation is to compose and write books; opposed to compiler or translator.

Author [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To occasion; to effect. [Not used.]

Author [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.

2. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.

3. The editor of a periodical.

4. An informant.

Author [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To occasion; to originate.

2. To tell; to say; to declare.

Authoress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A female author.

Authoress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A female author.

Authorial [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to an author.

Authorism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Authorship.

Authoritative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having due authority.

2. Having an air of authority; positive; peremptory.

Authoritative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.

2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone.

Authoritatively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In an authoritative manner; with a show of authority; with due authority.

Authoritativeness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality of being authoritative; an acting by authority; authoritative appearance.

Authorities [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Authority

Authority [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Legal power, or a right to command or to act; as the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children. Power; rule; sway.

2. The power derived from opinion, respect or esteem; influence of character or office; credit; as the authority of age or example, which is submitted to or respected, in some measure, as a law, or rule of action. That which is claimed in justification or support of opinions and measures.

3. Testimony; witness; or the person who testifies; as, the Gospels or the evangelists are our authorities for the miracles of Christ.

4. Weight of testimony; credibility; as a historian of no authority

5. Weight of character; respectability; dignity; as a magistrate of great authority in the city.

6. Warrant; order; permission.

7. By what authority dost thou these things. Matthew 21:23 . Acts 9:14 .

8. Precedents, decisions of a court, official declarations, respectable opinions and says, also the books that contain them, are call authorities, as they influence the opinions of others; and in law, the decisions of supreme courts have a binding force upon inferior courts, and are called authorities.

9. Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as the local authorities of the states.

10. In Connecticut, the justices of the peace are denominated the civil authority

Authority [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 of a court.

2. Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities.

3. The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority.

4. That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc.

5. Testimony; witness.

6. A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.

7. A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book.

8. Justification; warrant.

Authorizable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being authorized.

Authorization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of giving authority, or legal power; establishment by authority.

Authorization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.

Authorize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To give authority, warrant or legal power to; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle the boundary of the state.

2. To make legal; as, to authorize a marriage.

3. To establish by authority, as by usage, or public opinion; as an authorized idiom of language.

4. To give authority, credit or reputation to; as to authorize a report, or opinion.

5. To justify; to support as right. Suppress desires which reason does not authorize

Authorize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.

4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.

5. To justify; to furnish a ground for.

Authorized [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Warranted by right; supported by authority; derived from legal or proper authority; having power or authority.

Authorized [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.

2. Sanctioned by authority.

Authorized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Authorizer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who authorizes.

Authorizing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Giving authority to, or legal power, credit, or permission.

Authorizing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Authorless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without an author; without authority; anonymous.

Authorly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Authorial.

Authorship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality or state of being an author.

Authorship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Cause Roget’s Thesaurus §153

N. cause, origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, vera causa, author, mainspring, agent, leaven, groundwork, foundation, spring, fountain, well, font, fountainhead, spring head, wellhead, fons et origo, genesis, descent, remote cause, influence, pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum, key, proximate cause, causa causans, straw that breaks the camel's back, ground, reason, reason why, why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation, final cause, les dessous des cartes, undercurrents, rudiment, egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm, nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed, causality, causation, origination, production

V. be the cause of, originate, give origin to, give rise, to, give occasion to, cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle, suscitate, bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about, produce, create, set up, set afloat, set on foot, found, broach, institute, lay the foundation of, lie at the root of, procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke, entail, operate, elicit, provoke, conduce to, contribute, have a hand in the pie, have a finger in the pie, determine, decide, turn the scale, have a common origin, derive its origin

Adj. caused, causal, original, primary, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, protogenal, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in embryo, in ovo, seminal, germinal, at the bottom of, connate, having a common origin

Adv. because, behind the scenes

Phr. causa latet vis est notissima, felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

Producer Roget’s Thesaurus §164

N. producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover, maker, prime mover

Book Roget’s Thesaurus §593

N. booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595, writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning

Phr. "among the giant fossils of my past", craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, "for authors nobler palms remain", "i lived to write and wrote to live", "look in thy heart and write", "there is no past so long as books shall live", "the public mind is the creation of the master-writers", "volumes that i prize above my dukedom"

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Genesis 16:9

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

Genesis 41:35

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.

Numbers 5:19

And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse.

Numbers 5:20

But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—

Numbers 5:29

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

Numbers 27:20

And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

Confer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.

Judges 9:29

And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.

If only this people were under my authority, I would remove Abimelech; I would say to him, ‘Muster your army and come out!’”

2 Chronicles 26:13

And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.

2 Chronicles 31:13

And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the authority of Conaniah and his brother Shimei, by appointment of King Hezekiah and of Azariah the chief official of the house of God.

2 Chronicles 31:15

And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

Under his authority, Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah faithfully distributed portions to their fellow priests in their cities, according to their divisions, old and young alike.

Ezra 3:7

They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

Ezra 4:20

There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.

And mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem and exercised authority over the whole region west of the Euphrates; and tribute, duty, and toll were paid to them.

Ezra 5:3

At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?

At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

Ezra 5:9

Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?

So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

Ezra 7:24

Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.

And be advised that you have no authority to impose tribute, duty, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

Nehemiah 3:7

And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.

Next to them, repairs were made by Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, and the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, who were under the authority of the governor of the region west of the Euphrates.

Esther 9:29

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Isaiah 22:16

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?