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Profess :: Profess (v. t.) To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician..

Government :: Government (n.) The right or power of governing; authority.

Dominion :: Dominion (n.) Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy..

Diocese :: Diocese (n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council..

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

Umpirage :: Umpirage (n.) The office of an umpire; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide..

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

Edict :: Edict (n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch..

Exauthorate :: Exauthorate (v. t.) To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge.

Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power..

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

Royalty :: Royalty (n.) Kingliness; spirit of regal authority.

Petition :: Petition (n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer..

Pretorian :: Pretorian (a.) Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority..

Representative :: Representative (n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority..

Prime :: Prime (a.) First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister..

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..

Insubordination :: Insubordination (n.) The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.

Purple :: Purple (n.) Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple..

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