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noun

Author n.

The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. "Eternal King; thee, Author of all being."

One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. "The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."

The editor of a periodical. (Obs.)

An informant. (Archaic)

verb

Author v. t.

To occasion; to originate. (Obs.) "Such an overthrow... I have authored."

To tell; to say; to declare. (Obs.) "More of him I dare not author."

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"Author" Quotes from Famous Books

... way soon after the declaration of war. Circumstances place them on board the British cruiser "The Sylph" and from there on, they share adventures with the sailors of the Allies. Ensign Robert L. Drake, the author, is an experienced naval officer, and he describes admirably the many exciting adventures of the ...

— Miss Elliot's Girls • Mrs Mary Spring Corning

... taught by painful experience all we want to know about U-boat warfare, excitement in this tale is rather to seek, but it remains a most successful prophecy. In the last story of the book we have the author in his very worst form. "Three of Them" is a study of children, and the only excuse I can find for it is that it must be intended as a sop to the sentimentalists. Of the others my first vote goes to "The Surgeon ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 8, 1919 • Various

... which I shall ever esteem as one of {95} the most fortunate circumstances in my life. Though then but two-and-twenty, I had for several years read his works with delight and instruction, and had the highest reverence for their author, which had grown up in my fancy into a kind of mysterious veneration, by figuring to myself a state of solemn abstraction, in which I supposed him to live in the immense metropolis of London. Mr Gentleman, a native ...

— A Book of English Prose - Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools • Percy Lubbock

... writers of boys' stories in America to-day. This author has the happy faculty of pleasing the boys with writings which are noted for their animation and excitement. A select list ...

— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge

... in order that two may have an equal chance of living to that age. But the necessary maintenance of four children, it is supposed, may be nearly equal to that of one man. The labour of an able-bodied slave, the same author adds, is computed to be worth double his maintenance; and that of the meanest labourer, he thinks, cannot be worth less than that of an able-bodied slave. Thus far at least seems certain, that, in order to bring up a family, ...

— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith

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