auctorite
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French auctorité,[1] from Latin auctōritātem, accusative of auctōritās; equivalent to auctour + -ite.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]auctorite (plural auctorites)
- Legal authority or control; the privilege of exercising control.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales (in Middle English), [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio lxx, recto, column 2:
- And who ſo fyndeth hym out of ſuche blame / Commeth up and offre in goddes name / And I assoyle hym by the auctorite / Such as by bulle was graunted to me.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- The right to perform a given action; approval, permission.
- A mixture of charisma and willpower; conviction.
- Legal effectiveness or standing; genuineness.
- The state of being recognized and regarded as useful; worthiness.
- The book, quotation, or source that settles an argument; a definitive, reliable, or precise document or text.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: authority
- Scots: authority, authoritie
References
[edit]- ^ “auctoritẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 31 April 2018.
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