Author
Bible Usage:
- author used 3 times.
- First Reference: 1 Corinthians 14:33
- Last Reference: Hebrews 12:2
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
AU'THOR, noun [Latin auctor. The Latin word is from the root of augeo, to increase, or cause to enlarge. The primary sense is one who brings or causes to come forth.]
1. One who produces, creates, or brings into being; as, God is the author of the Universe.
2. The beginner, former, or first mover of any thing; hence, the efficient cause of a thing. It is appropriately applied to one who composes or writes a book, or original work, and in a more general sense, to one whose occupation is to compose and write books; opposed to compiler or translator.
AU'THOR, verb transitive To occasion; to effect. [Not used.]
AU'THORESS, noun A female author.
AUTHOR'ITATIVE, adjective
1. Having due authority.
2. Having an air of authority; positive; peremptory.
AUTHOR'ITATIVELY, adverb In an authoritative manner; with a show of authority; with due authority.
AUTHOR'ITATIVENESS, noun The quality of being authoritative; an acting by authority; authoritative appearance.
AUTHOR'ITY, noun [Latin auctoritas.]
1. Legal power, or a right to command or to act; as the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children. Power; rule; sway.
2. The power derived from opinion, respect or esteem; influence of character or office; credit; as the authority of age or example, which is submitted to or respected, in some measure, as a law, or rule of action. That which is claimed in justification or support of opinions and measures.
3. Testimony; witness; or the person who testifies; as, the Gospels or the evangelists are our authorities for the miracles of Christ.
4. Weight of testimony; credibility; as a historian of no authority
5. Weight of character; respectability; dignity; as a magistrate of great authority in the city.
6. Warrant; order; permission.
By what authority dost thou these things. Matthew 21:23. Acts 9:14.
7. Precedents, decisions of a court, official declarations, respectable opinions and says, also the books that contain them, are call authorities, as they influence the opinions of others; and in law, the decisions of supreme courts have a binding force upon inferior courts, and are called authorities.
8. Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as the local authorities of the states.
In Connecticut, the justices of the peace are denominated the civil authority
AUTHORIZA'TION, noun The act of giving authority, or legal power; establishment by authority.
AU'THORIZE, verb transitive
1. To give authority, warrant or legal power to; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle the boundary of the state.
2. To make legal; as, to authorize a marriage.
3. To establish by authority, as by usage, or public opinion; as an authorized idiom of language.
4. To give authority, credit or reputation to; as to authorize a report, or opinion.
5. To justify; to support as right. Suppress desires which reason does not authorize
AU'THORIZED, participle passive Warranted by right; supported by authority; derived from legal or proper authority; having power or authority.
AU'THORIZING, participle present tense Giving authority to, or legal power, credit, or permission.
AU'THORSHIP, noun [author and ship.] The quality or state of being an author.