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Definition of authority

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Authority (n.) 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..

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Citation :: Citation (n.) A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law..

Authority :: Authority (n.) Testimony; witness.

Warrant :: Warrant (n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action..

Bibliolatry :: Bibliolatry (n.) Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures..

Superintendence :: Superintend (v. t.) To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to oversee with the power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort..

Commanding :: Commanding (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer..

Mail :: Mail (n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter..

Mandamus :: Mandamus (n.) A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty..

Fulmine :: Fulmine (v. t.) To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.

Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party..

Demand :: Demand (v. t.) To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience..

Senate :: Senate (n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority..

Control :: Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control..

Episcopally :: Episcopally (adv.) By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.

Dominancy :: Dominancy (n.) Predominance; ascendency; authority.

Rehabilitate :: Rehabilitate (v. t.) To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law..

Exauthorize :: Exauthorize (v. t.) To deprive of authority.

Hegemony :: Hegemony (n.) Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.

Unchurch :: Unchurch (v. t.) To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church..

Tutor :: Tutor (v. t.) To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.