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solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle with a body so august. Byron.

Having a genuine original or 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.

In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

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.

Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. The authorization of laws. Motley. A special authorization from the chief. Merivale.

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

, to rely for authority. [Obs.] Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney.

Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.

Without an author; without authority; anonymous.

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.

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

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

In 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.

To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.

To adjudge; to assign by authority. The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser.

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to b…

, opposition between science and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.