autorisation, n.f., authorization; authority, permission; license (of a preacher); warrant; consent.
autoriser, v.a., to authorise, to empower, to commission, to qualify; to allow by authority, to legalize, to license, to warrant.
s’autoriser, v.r., to get or gain or assume authority, to think one’s self warranted (by), to act on the authority of.
autorité, n.f., authority, legal power, rule, command, sway; credit, power, sanction, interest, weight, consideration. Avoir de l’— sur; to have power over. Être en —; to be invested with authority. Il l’a fait de son — privée; he did it on his own initiative. Alléguer, apporter des —s; to quote or cite authorities. Faire —; to be an authority.
autour, n.m., goshawk.
autour, prep., about, round, around. — de sa personne; about his person. — du bras; round the arm. Tourner — du pot; to beat about the bush.
autour, adv., about, round, round about. Il regardait tout —; he looked all about. Ici —; hereabouts.
autourserie, n.f., goshawk training.
autoursier, n.m., goshawk trainer, falconer.
autre, adj., other, different, else, second, another. L’— jour; the other day. Une — fois; another time. Tout —; quite different. Aucun —; no one else. Vous —s; you people, fellows. Nous —; the like of us. Encore un —; another, one more. Il le regarde comme un — lui même; he looks upon him as a second self.