different between edict vs authority
edict
English
Etymology
From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?.d?kt/
Noun
edict (plural edicts)
- A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
Translations
Anagrams
- cited, ticed
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch edict, from Latin ?dictum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e??d?kt/
- Hyphenation: edict
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
edict n (plural edicten, diminutive edictje n)
- edict
Descendants
- Afrikaans: edik
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin edictum
Noun
edict n (plural edicte)
- edict
Declension
edict From the web:
- what edict has creon issued
- what edict encouraged toleration of christianity
- what edict means
authority
English
Alternative forms
- authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /???t???ti/
- Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
- Rhymes: -???ti
Noun
authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)
- (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
- (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.
- New York Port Authority
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- have something on good authority
References
- authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
- authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
authority From the web:
- what authority does luther claim to have
- what authority does the president have
- what authority does the queen of england have
- what authority does the supreme court have
- what authority does the border patrol have
- what authority do firefighters have
- what authority does the cdc have
- what authority does loss prevention have
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