Authorism (n.) Authorship.
Authoritative (a.) Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.
Authoritative (a.) Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone.
Authorities (pl. ) of Authority
Authority (n.) Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court.
Authority (n.) Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities.
Authority (n.) The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority.
Authority (n.) That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc.
Authority (n.) Testimony; witness.
Authority (n.) A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.
Authority (n.) A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book.
Authority (n.) Justification; warrant.
Authorizable (a.) Capable of being authorized.
Authorization (n.) The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.
Authorized (imp. & p. p.) of Authorize
Authorizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Authorize
Authorize (v. t.) To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
Authorize (v. t.) To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
Authorize (v. t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
Authorize (v. t.) To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
Authorize (v. t.) To justify; to furnish a ground for.
Authorized (a.) Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.
Authorized (a.) Sanctioned by authority.
Authorizer (n.) One who authorizes.
Authorless (a.) Without an author; without authority; anonymous.
Authorly (a.) Authorial.
Authorship (n.) The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.
Authorship (n.) Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
Authotype (n.) A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph.
Auto- () A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.
Autobiographer (n.) One who writers his own life or biography.
Autobiographic (a.) Alt. of Autobiographical
Autobiographical (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch.
Autobiographist (n.) One who writes his own life; an autobiographer.
Autobiographies (pl. ) of Autobiography
Autobiography (n.) A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.
Autocarpous (a.) Alt. of Autocarpian
Autocarpian (a.) Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.
Autocephalous (a.) Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.
Autochronograph (n.) An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.
Authochthons (pl. ) of Autochthon
Autochthones (pl. ) of Autochthon
Autochthon (n.) One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.
Autochthon (n.) That which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin.
Autochthonal (a.) Alt. of Autochthonous
Authochthonic (a.) Alt. of Autochthonous
Autochthonous (a.) Aboriginal; indigenous; native.
Autochthonism (n.) The state of being autochthonal.
Autochthony (n.) An aboriginal or autochthonous condition.
Autoclave (n.) A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.
Autocracies (pl. ) of Autocracy
Autocracy (n.) Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
Autocracy (n.) Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
Autocracy (n.) Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
Autocracy (n.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
Autocrat (a.) An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).
Autocrat (a.) One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot.
Autocratic (a.) Alt. of Autocratical
Autocratical (a.) Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.
Autocrator (n.) An autocrat.
Autocratorical (a.) Pertaining to an autocrator; absolute.
Autocratrix (n.) A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia.
Autocratship (n.) The office or dignity of an autocrat.
Autos-da-fe (pl. ) of Auto-da-fe
Auto-da-fe (n.) A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses.
Auto-da-fe (n.) An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.
Auto-da-fe (n.) A session of the court of Inquisition.
Autos-de-fe (pl. ) of Auto-de-fe
Auto-de-fe (n.) Same as Auto-da-fe.
Autodidact (n.) One who is self-taught; an automath.
Autodynamic (a.) Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.
Autofecundation (n.) Self-impregnation.
Autogamous (a.) Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
Autogamy (n.) Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
Autogeneal (a.) Self-produced; autogenous.
Autogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation.
Autogenetic (a.) Relating to autogenesis; self-generated.
Autogenous (a.) Self-generated; produced independently.
Autogenous (a.) Developed from an independent center of ossification.
Autogenously (adv.) In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
Autograph (n.) That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.
Autograph (a.) In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.
Autographal (a.) Autographic.
Autographic (a.) Alt. of Autographical
Autographical (a.) Pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph.
Autographical (a.) Pertaining to, or used in, the process of autography; as, autographic ink, paper, or press.
Autography (n.) The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.
Autography (n.) A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
Autolatry (n.) Self-worship.
Automath (n.) One who is self-taught.
Automatic (a.) Alt. of Automatical
Automatical (a.) Having an inherent power of action or motion.
Automatical (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.
Automatical (a.) Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions.
Automatically (adv.) In an automatic manner.
Automatism (n.) The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter.
Automata (pl. ) of Automaton
Automatons (pl. ) of Automaton
Automaton (v. i.) Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
Automaton (v. i.) A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.