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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Author \Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), n. [OE. authour autour OF
autor, F. auteur fr L. auctor, sometimes but erroneously,
written autor or author, fr augere to increase, to produce.
See {Auction}, n.]
1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything hence
the efficient cause of a thing a creator; an originator.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Author \Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), v. t.
1. To occasion; to originate. [Obs.]
Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. --Chapman.
2. To tell to say to declare. [Obs.]
More of him I dare not author. --Massinger.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
author
n 1: writes (books or stories or articles or the like)
professionally (for pay) [syn: {writer}]
2: someone who originates or causes or initiates something "he
was the generator of several complaints" [syn: {generator},
{source}]
v : be the author of "She authored this play"
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