What is "authorises"

Usage examples of "authorises".

For hereby he authorises the society, or which is all one, the legislative thereof, to make laws for him as the public good of the society shall require, to the execution whereof his own assistance (as to his own decrees) is due.

But this privilege, belonging only to the king’s person, hinders not but they may be questioned, opposed, and resisted, who use unjust force, though they pretend a commission from him which the law authorises not.

Such are the liberal precepts which good {87} sense dictates to every man, and which religion authorises.

Nothing authorises such an accusation, for limitation of a sphere is not misappreciation of every legitimate exercise.

A single natural phrase of peasant speech, a direct physical sense given to a word that genteel parlance authorises readily enough in its metaphorical sense, and at a touch you have blown the roof off the drawing-room of the villa, and have set its obscure inhabitants wriggling in the unaccustomed sun.

An innocent propensity, which Nature authorises, and does no injury to society, is a crime in the eyes of superstitious and cruel men.