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[Eng. author; -ial.] Pertaining to an author. ( Scott: Antiq., ch. ziv.) IMG:content-0907.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Po e ed of authority; founded on authority. 2. Given forth with authority. "With the practice of the whole Christian world the authoritative teaching of the Church of England appeared to be in strict harmony." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xiv. 3. Making or implying an a umption of authority. "And questions in authoritative tone." Words worth Excursion, bk. vii. âu-thor'-i-ta-tive-ly, adv . [Eng. author i tative; -ly.] In an authoritative manner; by proper authority; with an a umption of authority. publicly and authoritatively taught."-Cole ridge: Aids to Reflection , 4th ed. (1839), p. 223. "No law foreign binds in England till it be received, and authoritatively engrafted, into the law of England."- Hale . âu-thor'-i-ta-tive-ne , s. [Eng. author i tative; -ne .] The quality of being or app caring authoritative. (Johnson.) âu-thor-i-ty, âu-thor-i-tie, * âutor-i-tie, *âu-tor-ỹ-tě, * âuc-tor-i-tě, * âuc-tor-i-ty, âuc-tor-i-tie, * âuctor-i-tee, s. [In Sw. & Dan. autoritet; Ger. auto rit at ; Fr. autorité ; Sp. autoridad ; Port , autoridade ; Ital. autorita ; Prov. auc toritat . From Lat. auctoritas (1) a cause, (2) an opinion, (3) advice, (4) a precept, (5) a proposed legislative measure, (6) power or authority to act, (7) reputation, influence, (8) a pattern, (9) a warrant, credibility, (10) legal ownership; from auctor .] [AUTHOR.] Authority being connected with the word author, in its older and wider signification, meaning one who enlarges, confirms, or gives to a thing its complete form, hence one who originates or proposes anything, authority is, properly speaking, the power to act in the manner now described. It is used specially A. In an abstract sense: The right of claiming belief and deference, or of demanding obedience. L Of belief or deference: 1. Claimed on behalf of persons: (a) Legitimately : The right which a truthful person has of claiming belief in his testimony on matters of fact which have fallen under his immediate cognizance; also the right which a man of intellect, knowledge, and character po e es of claiming deference to his opinions, even if they cannot be accepted. "For authority , it is of two kinds: belief in an art, and belief in a man."- Bacon : Nat . Hist ., Cent. x. "I re-salute these sentiments, confirm'd By your authority." Words worth: Excursion, bk. v. "... the authority of a crowd of illustrious names "-Macaulay: Hi Hist. Eng., ch. xxiii. (b) Illegitimately : A claim to belief or deference not sustained by proper evidence. "It was known that he was so profane as to sneer at a practice which had been sanctioned by high ecclesiastical authority , the practice of touching for the scrofula."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiv. 2. Claimed on behalf of things : The title which a book or a document has to a greater or le er amount of credit, according to its character. "They consider the main consent of all the churches in the whole world, witne ing the sacred authority of scriptures, ."- Hooker . "But on what authority it was recorded by the first Roman chroniclers, we cannot now discover."-Lewis: Early Rom . Ilist ., ch. xii., pt. 1, § 13. II. Of obedience: 1. Claimed on behalf of persons: (i.) (The right to demand obedience may be founded on natural law, as the authority of a parent over his children; or on the law of the country, as that of a magistrate over those brought before him; or a master over an apprentice.) Delegated power given by superiors. "When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."- Prov . xxix. 2 "And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name."- Acts ix. 14. "Tyrconnel, before he departed, delegated his civil authority to one one council, and his military authority to another.-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xvi. (ii.) A umption that such a claim has been acknowledged; bold exercise of power. 380 exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let (iii.) Power resting on the actual acknowledgment of the claim made to it. no man despise thee."- Titus ii. 15. "Power arising from strength is always in those that Are governed, who are many but authority arising from opinion is in those that govern, who are few." Temple . 2. Claimed on behalf of things: The title which a law has to be obeyed. "The recent statutes were surely not of more au thority than the Great Charter or the Petition of Right.-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , chap. L B. In a concrete sense: The persons for whom or the things for which belief, deference, or obedience is claimed. L. Of persons: 1. Of persons legitimately or illegitimately elaiming belief or deference. statements made by such high authorities."Darwin: Descent of Man, pt. 1, ch. 1. 2. Of persons claiming obedience, viewed as individuals, or regarded collectively as one. In the former case the word is in the plural, "the military authorities," "the civil authorities," "the ecclesiastical authorities," "the municipal authorities," or simply "the authorities;" in the latter it is in the singular, as in the abstract word "authority." "The provincial authorities sent copies to the municipal authorities ."-Macaulay: Hist. of Eng ., ch. v. "Authority herself not seldom sleeps, Though resident, and witne of the wrong." Cowper: Task , bk. iv. It may be used, in an analogous sense, of particular orders of superhuman beings holding a place in the heavenly hierarchy. "Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being inade subject unto him."-1 Peter iii. 22. II. Of things (specially): Books or documents regarded as so deserving of credit that people in general are afraid to di ent from them in opinion. "We urge authorities in things that need not, and introduce the testimony of ancient writers, to confirm things evidently believed."-Browne: Vulgar Errours. "I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements."- Darwin : Origin of Species, Introd., p. 2. âu-thor-iz-a-ble, adj. [Eng. authorize; -able.] That may be authorized. a censure authorizable by that part of St. Austin's words "-Hammond: Works, vol. i., р. 248.