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Judge :: Judge (v. t.) To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.

Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice..

Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage..

Disenthrone :: Disenthrone (v. t.) To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.

Repeal :: Repeal (v. t.) To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law..

Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) Dominion or authority in sacred things.

Wield :: Wield (v. t.) To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway.

Mace :: Mace (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority..

Will :: Will (v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.

Prelate :: Prelate (n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church..

Coordinate :: Coordinate (n.) A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance..

Power :: Power (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity..

Give :: Give (n.) To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow..

Disposal :: Disposal (n.) Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of..

Prince :: Prince (a.) The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female..

Jurisdiction :: "Jurisdiction (a.) Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has authority..

Administrator :: Administrator (n.) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority..

Archbishopric :: Archbishopric (n.) The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.

Authority :: Authority (n.) A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent..

Distrust :: Distrust (n.) Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc..

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