Definition of authority

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Authority (n.) Justification; warrant.

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Credent :: Credent (a.) Having credit or authority; credible.
Umpirage :: Umpirage (n.) The office of an umpire; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide..
Pharmacopoeia :: Pharmacopoeia (n.) A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard..
Gazetteer :: Gazetteer (n.) A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority..
Sponsional :: Sponsion (n.) An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority..
Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice..
Dominancy :: Dominancy (n.) Predominance; ascendency; authority.
Revest :: Revest (v. t.) To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority..
Favorite :: Favorite (n.) A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority..
Firewarden :: Firewarden (n.) An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward..
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..
Warrantise :: Warrantise (n.) Authority; security; warranty.
Sceptreless :: Sceptreless (a.) Having no scepter; without authority; powerless; as, a scepterless king..
Sircar :: Sircar (n.) The government; the supreme authority of the state.
Claim :: Claim (v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due..
War :: War (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason..
Disenthrone :: Disenthrone (v. t.) To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.
Regent :: Regent (a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign..
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..
Landgraviate :: Landgraviate (n.) The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave..
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