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Decemvir :: Decemvir (n.) A member of any body of ten men in authority.

Gerontes :: Gerontes (n. pl.) Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority..

Vest :: Vest (n.) To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts..

Seize :: Seize (v. t.) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods..

Sunniah :: Sunna (n.) A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.

Fiat :: Fiat (n.) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.

Regian :: Regian (n.) An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist.

Apocryphal :: Apocryphal (a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.

Autocracy :: Autocracy (n.) Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

Subject :: Subject (a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else..

Authenticity :: Authenticity (n.) The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.

Submission :: Submission (n.) The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.

Compulsory :: Compulsory (a.) Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.

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..

Unlaw :: Unlaw (v. t.) To deprive of the authority or character of law.

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..

Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right..

Guild :: Guild (v. t.) An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority..

Sir :: Sir (n.) A man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire.

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

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