authority

As nouns the difference between authority and decemvir

is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while decemvir is one of a body of ten magistrates in ancient rome.

As a noun authority

is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders.

As a proper noun centrelink is

(australian) the statutory authority responsible for providing social security payments.

As nouns the difference between authority and hearsomeness

is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while hearsomeness is (rare) obedience; submission to authority.

As nouns the difference between authority and quinquevirate

is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while quinquevirate is a group of five men, especially five men joined in authority.

As nouns the difference between authority and muckamuck

is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while muckamuck is food.

As nouns the difference between authority and antirrhesis

is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while antirrhesis is (rhetoric) a discrediting or rejection of an authority.

As nouns the difference between authority and poustie

is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while poustie is power, authority.

As a noun authority

is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders.

As an adjective antiauthority is

opposed to authority.

As nouns the difference between authority and praemunire

is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while praemunire is (legal|historical) the offence, in english law, of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, especially a papal court or authority.

As a verb praemunire is

(obsolete) to subject to the penalties of praemunire.

As nouns the difference between authority and significavit

is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while significavit is (uk|legal|historical) a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church.