Definition of authoritative

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Authoritative (a.) Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding..

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Veto :: Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
Magisteriality :: Magisteriality (n.) Magisterialness; authoritativeness.
Inauthoritative :: Inauthoritative (a.) Without authority; not authoritative.
Demand :: Demand (v. t.) To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question..
Decretal :: Decretal (a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law..
Allocution :: Allocution (n.) An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy.
Abrogate :: Abrogate (v. t.) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc..
Command :: Command (n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
Fiat :: Fiat (n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
Enact :: Enact (v. t.) To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law..
Pharmacopoeia :: Pharmacopoeia (n.) A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard..
Dogma :: Dogma (n.) A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet..
Potestative :: Potestative (a.) Authoritative.
Institute :: Institute (a.) Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n..
Dictum :: Dictum (n.) An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
Authentic :: Authentic (n.) Authoritative.
Decretorial :: Decretorial (a.) Decretory; authoritative.
Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
Cathedral :: Cathedral (a.) Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative..
Enjoinment :: Enjoinment (n.) Direction; command; authoritative admonition.
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