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      "phonetic": [
        "ˈɔθər"
      ],
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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic."
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          "name": "Noun",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.\nThe copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book III”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.\n1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond\nDuring the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant  \n1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language Preface\nThe chief glory of every people arises from its authors.\nHave you read any Corinthian authors?\n1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond\nDuring the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant"
            },
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              "mean": "Someone who writes books for a living."
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              "mean": "(obsolete, criminal law) Principal.\n1894,  Franco-Siamese Mixed Court,  The Case of Kieng Chek (Kham Muon) before the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court‎, Bangkok: n.p., page 4:Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as the authors of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise."
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              "mean": "(obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant.\n1699, Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus\nLet me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision"
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          "name": "Verb",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "(chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author."
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          "name": "동사.",
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