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  • English Word Authorize Definition To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
  • English Word Authorize Definition To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
  • English Word Authorize Definition To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
  • English Word Authorize Definition To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
  • English Word Authorize Definition To justify; to furnish a ground for.
  • English Word Authorized Definition of Authorize
  • English Word Authorized Definition Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.
  • English Word Authorized Definition Sanctioned by authority.
  • English Word Authorizer Definition One who authorizes.
  • English Word Authorizing Definition of Authorize
  • English Word Authorless Definition Without an author; without authority; anonymous.
  • English Word Authorly Definition Authorial.
  • English Word Authorship Definition The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.
  • English Word Authorship Definition Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
  • English Word Authotype Definition A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph.
  • English Word Auto- Definition A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.
  • English Word Auto-da-fe Definition A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses.
  • English Word Auto-da-fe Definition 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.
  • English Word Auto-da-fe Definition A session of the court of Inquisition.
  • English Word Auto-de-fe Definition Same as Auto-da-fe.
  • English Word Autobiographer Definition One who writers his own life or biography.
  • English Word Autobiographic Definition Alt. of Autobiographical
  • English Word Autobiographical Definition Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch.
  • English Word Autobiographies Definition of Autobiography
  • English Word Autobiographist Definition One who writes his own life; an autobiographer.
  • English Word Autobiography Definition A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.
  • English Word Autocarpian Definition Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.
  • English Word Autocarpous Definition Alt. of Autocarpian
  • English Word Autocephalous Definition Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.
  • English Word Autochronograph Definition An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.