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Word Meanings - AUTHOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2.
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auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2. One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson. 3. The editor of a periodical. 4. An informant. Chaucer.
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- FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - ORIGINATOR
One who originates. - INVENTOR
One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices. - PLANTERSHIP
The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. - FOUNDERY
See FOUNDRY - CONTRIVER
One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift. - INVENTORIAL
Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- In`ven*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Shak. - AUTHORITY
1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; 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 - AUTHORESS
A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male. - CREATOR
One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being. To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise. Shak. The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers - AUTHORSHIP
1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs. - INSTITUTER
An institutor. - AUTHOR
auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2. - AUTHORIZABLE
Capable of being authorized. Hammond. - AUTHORIZED
1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. 2. Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be - AUTHORITATIVE
1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. 2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an - AUTHORIZE
1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. 2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage. 3. To establish - CREATORSHIP
State or condition of a creator. - AUTHORLESS
Without an author; without authority; anonymous. - INAUTHORITATIVE
Without authority; not authoritative. - DISAUTHORIZE
To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton. - CHEST FOUNDER
A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration. - REFOUNDER
One who refounds. - DUMFOUNDER
To dumfound; to confound. - TRANSPLANTER
One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.