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Requisition :: Requisition (n.) That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries..

Vicegerent :: Vicegerent (n.) An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar..

Warranter :: Warranter (n.) One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers..

Parliamentary :: Parliamentary (a.) Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority..

Exile :: Exile (n.) The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home..

Bureaucracy :: Bureaucracy (n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system..

Range :: Range (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority..

Clothe :: Clothe (v. t.) Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power..

Melchite :: Melchite (n.) One of a sect, chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledges the authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church..

Vizierate :: Vizierate (n.) The office, dignity, or authority of a vizier..

Mighty :: Mighty (n.) Possessing might; having great power or authority.

Liege :: Liege (a.) Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord..

Magister :: Magister (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts..

Legate :: Legate (n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.

Church :: Church (n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil..

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

Gallicanism :: Gallicanism (n.) The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church..

Episcopacy :: Episcopacy (n.) Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind..

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

Patriarchal :: Patriarchal (a.) Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church..

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