Definition of authority

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Authority (n.) Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities..

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Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.
Reign :: Reign (n.) The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth..
Authenticity :: Authenticity (n.) The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.
Word :: Word (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
Fiat :: Fiat (n.) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
Evil :: Evil (n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity..
Imperialize :: Imperialize (v. t.) To invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire..
Champerty :: Champerty (n.) Partnership in power; equal share of authority.
Token :: Token (n.) Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith, etc..
Prepotent :: Prepotent (a.) Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant..
Throne :: Throne (n.) Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage..
Warn :: Warn (v. t.) To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house..
Unchurch :: Unchurch (v. t.) To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church..
Marital :: Marital (v.) Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority..
Abdication :: Abdication (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority..
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
Oracular :: Oracular (a.) Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism..
Wich :: Wich (n.) A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick..
Obedience :: Obedience (n.) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope..
Abrogator :: Abrogator (n.) One who repeals by authority.
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