Part 791

<h1>Authentical</h1> <Xpage=102>

<hw>Au*then"tic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Authentic.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<h1>Authentically</h1> <Xpage=102>

<hw>Au*then"tic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.</def>

<h1>Authenticalness</h1> <Xpage=102>

<hw>Au*then*tic*al*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being authentic; authenticity.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Barrow.</i>

<h1>Authenticate</h1> <Xpage=102>

<hw>Au*then"ti*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Authenticated</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Authenticating</er> (<?/).]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>authenticare</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.</def>

<blockquote>The king serves only as a notary to <b>authenticate</b> the choice of judges. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; <as>as, to <ex>authenticate</ex> a portrait</as>.</def>

<i>Walpole.</i>

<h1>Authenticity</h1> <Xpage=102>

<hw>Au`then*tic"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>authenticit\'82</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.</def>

<note>&hand; In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity, <i>authenticity</i> is often restricted in its use to the first of the above meanings, and distinguished from <i>qenuineness</i>.</note>

<h1>Authenticly</h1> <Xpage=102>

<hw>Au*then"tic*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Authentically.</def>

<h1>Authenticness</h1> <Xpage=102>

<hw>Au*then"tic*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being authentic; authenticity.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Hammond.</i>

<h1>Authentics</h1> <Xpage=102>

<hw>Au*then"tics</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Ciwil Law)</fld> <def>A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its <i>authencity</i>.</def>

<i>Bouvier.</i>

<h1>Author</h1> <Xpage=102>

<hw>Au"thor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>authour</ets>, <ets>autour</ets>, OF. <ets>autor</ets>, F. <ets>auteur</ets>, fr. L. <ets>auctor</ets>, sometimes, but erroneously, written <ets>autor</ets> or <ets>author</ets>, fr. <ets>augere</ets> to increase, to produce. See <er>Auction</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.</def>

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<blockquote>Eternal King; thee, <b>Author</b> of all being. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>