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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 of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou these things M…

Capable of being authorized. Hammond.

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.

One who authorizes.

Without an author; without authority; anonymous.

Authorial. [R.] Cowper.

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

A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph. Knight.

One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

Aboriginal; indigenous; native.

The state of being autochthonal.

An aboriginal or autochthonous condition.

Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak.

An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.

A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

State or nature of a beast.