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auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2.

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auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2. One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson. 3. The editor of a periodical. 4. An informant. Chaucer.

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  • FOUNDER
    One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
  • FOUNDEROUS
    Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
  • ORIGINATOR
    One who originates.
  • INVENTOR
    One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.
  • PLANTERSHIP
    The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
  • FOUNDERY
    See FOUNDRY
  • CONTRIVER
    One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
  • INVENTORIAL
    Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- In`ven*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Shak.
  • AUTHORITY
    1. 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
  • AUTHORESS
    A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
  • CREATOR
    One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being. To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise. Shak. The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers
  • AUTHORSHIP
    1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
  • INSTITUTER
    An institutor.
  • AUTHOR
    auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2.
  • AUTHORIZABLE
    Capable of being authorized. Hammond.
  • AUTHORIZED
    1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. 2. Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be
  • AUTHORITATIVE
    1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. 2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an
  • AUTHORIZE
    1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. 2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage. 3. To establish
  • CREATORSHIP
    State or condition of a creator.
  • AUTHORLESS
    Without an author; without authority; anonymous.
  • INAUTHORITATIVE
    Without authority; not authoritative.
  • DISAUTHORIZE
    To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton.
  • CHEST FOUNDER
    A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
  • REFOUNDER
    One who refounds.
  • DUMFOUNDER
    To dumfound; to confound.
  • TRANSPLANTER
    One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.

 

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