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Thompson Chain Reference
• Authority
Dictionaries
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Bible, Authority of the
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• Authorities
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Bible: Power of Its Authority
Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
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• Authority in Religion
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Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
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King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
• Authorizing
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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• Authority in General
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Authorized (English) Version of the Holy Scriptures
• Authorized (English) Version of the Holy Scriptures.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Civil Authority
• The Authorized Version
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Authority, Rabbinical
• Patriarchal Family and Authority
Lexicons
• ܡܫܰܠܛܳܐ
• ܫܽܘܠܛܳܢܳܐ
• ܫܠܰܛ
• αἴτιος
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• הוֹד
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• כִּסֵּא כִּסֵּה, , כֵּסְיָהּ
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Trench's NT Synonyms
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AUTHOR'ITY, n. L. 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 . Acts 9 .

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 authority.