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To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.

The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

Past the middle of life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.…

To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke.

ake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.

Babble. Hawthorne.

. Shelley's thought never had any backbone. Shairp. To the backbone, through and through; thoroughly; entirely. "Staunch to the backbone." Lord Lytton.

One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.

The thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

banc, In banco (the ablative of bancus), In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius).

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak.

with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass. [Written also base.] Thorough bass. See Thorough bass.

A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay.

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

Same as Bathorse.