Chapter Aurum to Autocephalous of A by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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 by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.

4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.

A woman's story at a winter's fire,
Authorized by her grandam.
Shak.

5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.

To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. [Obs.]

Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories.
Sir P. Sidney.

Authorized
(Au"thor*ized) a.

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 read in churches," and has been the accepted English Bible. The Revised Version was published in a complete form in 1855.

Authorizer
(Au"thor*i`zer) n. One who authorizes.

Authorless
(Au"thor*less), a. Without an author; without authority; anonymous.

Authorly
(Au"thor*ly), a. Authorial. [R.] Cowper.

Authorship
(Au"thor*ship), n.

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.

Authotype
(Au"tho*type) n. A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph. Knight.

Auto-
(Au"to-) A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.

Autobiographer
(Au`to*bi*og"ra*pher) n. [Auto- + biographer.] One who writers his own life or biography.

Autobiographic
(Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al) a. 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.

Autobiographist
(Au`to*bi*og"ra*phist) n. One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [R.]

Autobiography
(Au`to*bi*og"ra*phy) n.; pl. Autobiographies [Auto- + biography.] A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

Autocarpous
(Au`to*car"pous Au`to*car"pi*an) a. [Auto- + Gr. karpo`s fruit.] (Bot.) Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.