authority

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

In Connecticut the justices of the peace are denominated the civil authority.--Webster.


Mr. Pickering says, "This word is also used in some of the States in speaking collectively of the professors, &c. of our colleges, to whom the government of those institutions is intrusted."

"The authority required him to give bonds for his good behavior."--Miss H. Adams's Hist. of New England, p. 64.

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