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authorities 音标拼音: [əθ'ɔrətiz] 权威,当局,权限 权威,当局,权限 authorities n 1: the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; " the government reduced taxes"; " the matter was referred to higher authorities" [ synonym: { government}, { authorities}, { regime}] authorities \ authorities\ n. 1. the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit. Syn: government, regime. [ WordNet 1. 5]
Authority \ Au* thor" i* ty\, n.; pl. { Authorities}. [ OE. autorite, auctorite, F. autorit[' e], fr. L. auctoritas, fr. auctor. See { Author}, n.] 1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. [ 1913 Webster] Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] By what authority doest thou these things ? -- Matt. xxi. 23. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities. [ Chiefly in the plural.] [ 1913 Webster] 3. The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority. [ 1913 Webster] 4. That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc. Hence: ( a) Testimony; witness. " And on that high authority had believed." -- Milton. ( b) A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent. ( c) A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book. ( d) Justification; warrant. [ 1913 Webster] Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern Authority for sin, warrant for blame. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 29 Moby Thesaurus words for " authorities": John Bull, Uncle Sam, Washington, Whitehall, bureaucracy, directorate, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher- ups, management, ministry, officialdom, prelacy, ruling class, ruling classes, the Crown, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the government, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, them, they, top brassAUTHORITIES, practice. By this word is understood the citations which aremade of laws, acts of the legislature, and decided cases, and opinions ofelementary writers. In its more confined sense, this word means, casesdecided upon solemn argument which are said to ' be authorities for similarjudgments iii like cases. 1 Lilly' s Reg. 219. These latter are sometimescalled precedents. ( q. v.) Merlin, Repertoire, mot Autorites. 2. It has been remarked, that when we find an opinion in a text writerupon any particular point, we must consider it not merely as the opinion ofthe author, but as the supposed result of the authorities to which herefers; 3 Bos. & Pull. 361; but this is not always the case, and frequentlythe opinion is advanced with the reasons which support it, and it must standor fall as these are or are not well founded. A distinction has been madebetween writers who have, and those who have not holden a judicial station; the former are considered authority, and the latter are not so consideredunless their works have been judicially approved as such. Ram. on Judgments, 93. But this distinction appears not to be well founded; some writers whohave occupied a judicial station do not possess the talents or the learningof others who have not been so elevated, and the works or writings of thelatter are much more deserving the character of an authority than those ofthe former. See 3 T. R. 4, 241.
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