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  • English Word Authenticating Definition of Authenticate
  • English Word Authenticity Definition The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.
  • English Word Authenticity Definition Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
  • English Word Authenticly Definition Authentically.
  • English Word Authenticness Definition The quality of being authentic; authenticity.
  • English Word Authentics Definition A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authenticity.
  • English Word Authochthonic Definition Alt. of Autochthonous
  • English Word Authochthons Definition of Autochthon
  • English Word Author Definition The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
  • English Word Author Definition One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
  • English Word Author Definition The editor of a periodical.
  • English Word Author Definition An informant.
  • English Word Author Definition To occasion; to originate.
  • English Word Author Definition To tell; to say; to declare.
  • English Word Authoress Definition A female author.
  • English Word Authorial Definition Of or pertaining to an author.
  • English Word Authorism Definition Authorship.
  • English Word Authoritative Definition Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.
  • English Word Authoritative Definition Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone.
  • English Word Authorities Definition of Authority
  • English Word Authority Definition 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.
  • English Word Authority Definition Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities.
  • English Word Authority Definition 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.
  • English Word Authority Definition That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc.
  • English Word Authority Definition Testimony; witness.
  • English Word Authority Definition A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.
  • English Word Authority Definition A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book.
  • English Word Authority Definition Justification; warrant.
  • English Word Authorizable Definition Capable of being authorized.
  • English Word Authorization Definition The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.