Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word authour's.
Examples
-
Quaternions and Maxwell's quaternion theory, may eventually have returned to them to try to capture the elusive gravity, which - by the present authour's thesis - inadvertently he had discarded earlier when he struck down the scalar component of the quaternion and converted it to a vector.
Chapter 4 1990
-
By the generosity of Mr. Harris, the proprietor of Covent Garden theatre, it was now exhibited for one night, for the benefit of the authour's widow and children.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
-
As to the printing, if it can be set immediately about, I will be so much the authour's friend, as not to content myself with mere solicitations in his favour.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
-
Akenside having been informed of this imposition, vindicated his right by publishing the poem with its real authour's name.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
-
I knew not what answer to make till I had consulted you, nor what to demand on the authour's part, but am very willing that, if you please, he should have a part in it, as he will undoubtedly be more diligent to disperse and promote it.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
-
[771] A few copies only of this tragedy have been printed, and given to the authour's friends.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
-
And when those who are so much the arbiters of literary merit, as in a considerable degree to influence the publick opinion, review an authour's work, placido lumine [196], when I am afraid mankind in general are better pleased with severity, he may surely express a grateful sense of their civility [197].
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
-
I attempted in a newspaper to comment on the above passage, in the manner of Warburton, who must be allowed to have shewn uncommon ingenuity, in giving to any authour's text whatever meaning he chose it should carry.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
-
It is a very ingenious defence of the right of abridging an authour's work, without being held as infringing his property.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
-
To wit, reviving from its authour's dust, Be kind, ye judges, or at least be just: Let no renewed hostilities invade Th 'oblivious grave's inviolable shade.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.