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unauˈthoritative, a. (un-1 7 and 5 b.)
1644Hunton Vind. Treat. Monarchy v. 39 Is that..Authoritative; or merely Consiliarie and unauthoritative? 1780Bentham Princ. Legisl. xix. §22 A Book of expository Jurisprudence is either authoritative or unauthoritative. 1851H. W. Torrens Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 14 The vague and unauthoritative character of this learned writer's deductions. 1884S. Dowell Taxation iv. iii. I. 67 An abstract, imperfect and unauthoritative, of the Regent's Act of confirmation. Hence unauˈthoritatively adv.; -ness.
1644Hunton Vind. Treat. Monarchy iv. 27 It brings an illegality and unauthoritativenesse on acts exceeding. a1827in Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. V. 595 note, To speak of the unauthoritatively..described act as evidence of the authoritatively..expressed one. |