Word Meanings - UNAUTHORIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To disown the authority of; to repudiate.

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
DISOWN
1. To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings. 2. To refuse to acknowledge
DISOWNMENT
Act of disowning.
REPUDIATE
repudiate, reject, fr. repudium separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + 1. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne. 2. To divorce, put away, or discard, as