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

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.

, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

his mind from other occupations. Barrow. He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson.

compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-.

; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks. Azoic age (Geol.), the age preceding the existence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age being understood. See Archæan, and Eozoic.

The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. "In robes of azure." Wordsworth.

s; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]

e power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.

Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

The lower part of a robe or petticoat. [Obs.]

f distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. Robertson.

. [Prep. phrase.] Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Eph. v. 6.

lic beverages. -- To believe on, to accept implicitly as an object of religious trust or obedience; to have faith in.

To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. A coarse black robe belted round the waist. C. Reade. They belt him round with hearts undaunted. Wordsworth.

To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect. To obey is better than sacrifice. 1 Sam. xv. 22. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. Ps. cxviii. 9.

ial regard; to heed. [Obs.] Behold, I send an Angel before thee. . . . Beware of him, and obey his voice. Ex. xxiii. 20, 21.