Word Meanings - AUTHORITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou these things Matt. xxi. 23. 2. Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities. 3. 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. 4. That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc. Hence: Testimony; witness. "And on that high authority had believed." Milton. A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent. A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book. Justification; warrant. Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern Authority for sin, warrant for blame. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AUTHORITY)

• Ascendancy
• Superiority
• advantage
• mastery
• control
• influence
• supremacy
• sway
• domination
• authority
• Beck
• Nod
• sign
• signal
• symbol
• token
• indication
• orders
• instruction
• subserviency
• call
• command
• mandate
• Dominion
• Power
• rule
• tyranny
• despotism
• government
• empire
• realm
• territory
• jurisdiction
• Influence
• Effect
• causation
• affection
• impulse
• power
• credit
• character
• weight
• ascendancy
• prestige
• Judge
• Justice
• magistrate
• arbitrator
• umpire
• referee
• critic
• connoisseur
• arbiter

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AUTHORITY)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to AUTHORITY)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• CONNOISSEUR
  One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt. (more
• CREDIT FONCIER
  A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• ONIROCRITIC
  See ONEIROCRITIC
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• DISCREDITABLE
  Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a