Authorise
[ɔ:θәraiz]
Examples
- Do this and I authorise you to fear nothing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Her ideas are not higher than her own fortune may warrant, but they are beyond what our incomes united could authorise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Sir Thomas wrote of it with as much decision as experience and anxiety could authorise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I am authorised to tell him that Miss Verinder willingly consents to place her house at our disposal; and, that said, I am desired to add no more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Still Mrs. Elton insisted on being authorised to write an acquiescence by the morrow's post. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mr. Darcy has not authorised me to make his communication public. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Married women, you know, may be safely authorised. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Now, if you will fetch any authorised neighbouring somebody to do it in return for my opening the door, I'll open the door. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- At any rate, she cannot grow many degrees worse, without authorising us to lock her up for the rest of her life. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I wrote two lines to Pesca, authorising him to deliver my sealed letter to the bearer, directed the note, and handed it to Monsieur Rubelle. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This statute, however, authorises in some measure two very absurd popular prejudices. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edited by Cathryn