auctorite
Middle English
FWOTD – 8 December 2018
Alternative forms
- auctoritee, auctoryte, autorite, autoritee, autoryte, awtorite, outorytye
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French auctorité,[1] from Latin auctōritātem, accusative of auctōritās; equivalent to auctour + -ite.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /au̯tɔriˈteː/, /au̯ktɔriˈteː/
- Rhymes: -eː
- Hyphenation: auc‧tor‧i‧te
Noun
auctorite (plural auctorites)
- Legal authority or control; the privilege of exercising control.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, 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.
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- 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
- auctour
Descendants
- English: authority
- Scots: authority, authoritie
References
- “auctoritẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 31 April 2018.