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, 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.

A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.

An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.

Same as Auto-da-fé.

Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.

Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body.

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

One who writers his own life or biography.

Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic sort." Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [R.]

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Self-catalysis; catalysis of a substance by one of its own products, as of silver oxide by the silver formed by reduction of a small portion of it. -- Au`to*cat`a*lyt"ic (#), a.

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.