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The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.

The quality of being audible.

The state of being augmented; enlargement.

The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean. Austral signs (Astron.), the last six signs of the zodiac, or those south of the equator.

authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register. To be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire. Milton.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Barrow.

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

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Hammond.

e efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton.

Capable of being authorized. Hammond.

The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

Poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxic substances produced within the body; autotoxæmia.

The state of being autochthonal.

Quality of being autocious.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self- moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter.