authority

Roget category 737

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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#737. Authority

noun

authority — influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction — right etc. (title) 924 — direction etc. 693 — government etc. 737.1. divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness — absoluteness, absolutism — despotism — jus nocendi [Lat.] — jus divinum [Lat.].
mastery, mastership, masterdom^† — dictation, control.
hold, grasp — grip, gripe — reach — iron sway etc. (severity) 739 — fangs, clutches, talons — rod of empire etc. (scepter) 747.
[Vicarious authority] commission etc. 755 — deputy etc. 759 — permission etc. 760.

verb

authorize etc. (permit) 760 — warrant etc. (right) 924 — dictate etc. (order) 741.
be at the head of etc. adj. — hold office, be in office, fill an office — hold master, occupy master, a post master, be master etc. 745.
have the upper hand, get the upper hand, have the whip, get the whip — gain a hold upon, preponderate, dominate, rule the roost — boss [U.S.] — override, overrule, overawe — lord it over, hold in hand, keep under, make a puppet of, lead by the nose, turn round one's little finger, bend to one's will, hold one's own, wear the breeches — have the ball at one's feet, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's own hand, have on the hip, have under one's thumb — be master of the situation — take the lead, play first fiddle, set the fashion — give the law to — carry with a high hand — lay down the law — ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm" [Addison]; rule with a rod of iron etc. (severity) 739.

adjective

at the head, dominant, paramount, supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential — arbitrary — compulsory etc. 744 — stringent.
at one's command — in one's power, in one's grasp — under control.

adverb

in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi [Fr.], in virtue of — under the auspices of, in the hands of.
at one's pleasure — by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen — ex mero motu [Lat.] — ex cathedra [Lat.], from the chair.

phrase

the gray mare the better horse — every inch a king" [Lear]. 780,

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