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noun

Author n.

The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. "Eternal King; thee, Author of all being."

One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. "The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."

The editor of a periodical. (Obs.)

An informant. (Archaic)

verb

Author v. t.

To occasion; to originate. (Obs.) "Such an overthrow... I have authored."

To tell; to say; to declare. (Obs.) "More of him I dare not author."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... charm of this book is its inadvertent humor, so much the more delicious because unsuspected by the author. How pleasant is his innocent vanity in adding to the list of the British, and still more of the Selbornian, fauna! I believe he would gladly have consented to be eaten by a tiger or a crocodile, if by that means the occasional presence within the parish limits of either ...

— My Garden Acquaintance • James Russell Lowell

... innumerable, filled the intervals from labor to labor with gentle entertainment. Skyward ponderings by night, canny discoveries under foot by day, quickened his mind and sight to vast and to minute significancies, until they declared an Author known to him hitherto only by tradition. Every acre of the barren islet grew fertile in beauties and mysteries, and a handful of sand at the door of his tent held him for hours guessing the titanic battles that had ground the invincible ...

— Strong Hearts • George W. Cable

... Bibliography of the Thousand and One Nights, and their Imitations, with a Table shewing the contents of the principal editions and translations of The Nights. By W. F. Kirby, Author of "Ed-Dimiryaht, and Oriental Romance"; "The New Arabian ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

... is subscribed 'Expliceth, quod Rychard Sheale.' Sheale is known to have been a minstrel of Tamworth, and it would appear that much of this MS. (including certain poems, no doubt his own) is in his handwriting—probably the book belonged to him. But the supposition that he was author of the Hunting of the Cheviot, Child dismisses as 'preposterous in ...

— Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series • Various

... imaginative work of Mary Shelley's twenty-sixth year contains some of the author's most powerful ideas; but is marred in the commencement by some ...

— Mrs. Shelley • Lucy M. Rossetti

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