Word Finder - authoritative

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Arising or originating from a figure of authority

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The authoritative rules in this school come not from the headmaster but from the aged matron.

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Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority

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This book is the world's most authoritative guide to insect breeding habits.

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Having a commanding style.

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He instructed us in that booming, authoritative voice of his.

His character was at once authoritative and weak.

The text of Ibelin became a textus receptus - but it also became overlaid by glosses, for it was used as authoritative in the kingdom of Cyprus after the loss of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and it needed expounding.

Its independent value is small, but it sometimes fills a gap left by the more authoritative records.

It is therefore reasonable to hold that the Hebrew Psalter was completed and recognized as an authoritative collection long enough before 130 B.C. to allow of its passing to the Greek-speaking Jews in Alexandria.

More detailed or authoritative reviews can be difficult to find.

The Anglican Church, while still commemorating many of the Catholic saints, has not, since the Reformation, admitted any new names to the authoritative list, with the single exception of that of King Charles I., whose "martyrdom" was celebrated by authority from the Restoration until the year 1859.

Himself well trained in the learning and medical science of the day, he despised and trampled upon all traditional and authoritative teachings.

Additionally, both signs have an inborn need to be in charge and to be the authoritative partner in a relationship.

Authoritative parenting is the ideal for which most parents try to strive.

Authoritative parents seek to set clear and age-appropriate guidelines for their children.

Some believe that the authoritative and attachment parenting methods are superior to the authoritarian and permissive styles.

Those who fall under the strict, authoritarian style may benefit from looking at authoritative methods and those who fall under the permissive style may benefit from considering attachment parenting methods.

Active is an interactive approach similar to the authoritative or democratic style.

Many online quizzes about parenting styles are readily available and after awhile, you can easily tell which answers belong to authoritarian, permissive and authoritative methods.

The authoritative parenting style and its outcomes are part of the debate over the most effective way to raise children.

Is being authoritative the best way to give a child a successful life?

The term "authoritative parenting style" came out of the research of clinical psychologist Diana Baumrind.

Authoritative parents demand good behavior but are responsive to the child's needs and desires.

Dr. Gwen Dyer wrote a comprehensive article on the authoritative parenting style and its outcomes for the website Parenting Science.

Authoritative parenting also encourages self-expression and independence; it is very nurturing of a child's needs.

By modeling empathy for their children, authoritative parents seem to raise more empathetic children.

Another quality of the authoritative parent is a better connection between the parent and child.

Diana Baumrind's research has also shown that authoritative parents have been "remarkably successful in protecting their adolescents from problem drug use."

Baumrind and others have found that children raised in the authoritative environment have a better opinion of themselves as well.

While individual children and parents vary, the research seems to indicate that of the four styles, authoritative parenting results in the best outcomes for kids.

Like any social study, it can't be conclusive, but the overwhelming evidence is that the outcome of authoritative parenting is happier, more popular, and more competent children.

The four basic styles are authoritarian, permissive/indulgent, authoritative, and uninvolved.

Children of authoritative parents demonstrate more self-control, higher self-esteem, and a higher level of self-direction.

Authoritative parents fall somewhere in between the two.

This system, which for many years subsequently was regarded as authoritative, has been subjected to vigorous criticism by later economists, and it is perhaps not too much to say that it now possesses mainly an historical interest.

The authoritative parent falls in between the authoritarian and permissive parenting styles.

From the record of actual exports and a comparison of the most authoritative estimates of total production, it may be said that from 1848 to 1856 the yield was almost certainly not less than $450,000,000, and that about 1870 the billion dollar mark had been passed.

Of the works mentioned C. de Freycinet's La Question d'Egypte (Paris, 1905) gives the most authoritative account of the diplomatic developments.

For not only were its founder and his disciples Asiatics, and the original authoritative writings Semitic, but Asiatic tribes and nations coming into Europe have been readily converted.

Even the prophets had spoken in the name of God; they accepted neither book nor priesthood as authoritative, but uttered their truth as they were inspired to speak, and commanded men to listen and obey.

In their theory of a triple manifestation of an impersonal deity, the Brahmanical theologians, as we have seen, had indeed elaborated a doctrine which might have seemed to form a reasonable, authoritative creed for logy.

Ramananda's teaching was thus of a distinctly levelling and popular character; and, in accordance therewith, the Bhakta-mala and other authoritative writings of the sect are composed, not in Sanskrit, but in the popular dialects.

The smallest species, commonly known in English as the long-tailed or Buffon's generally likened to the marlinespike that is identified with the boatswain's position; but perhaps the authoritative character assumed by both bird and officer originally suggested the name.

In the article Midrash it will be seen that new teaching could justify itself by a reinterpretation of the old writings, and that the traditions of former authoritative figures could become the framework of a teaching considerably later than their age.

Especially interesting are the Baraithas which are preserved in the Gemara in Hebrew; they are " external " decisions not included in the more authoritative 4 See Strack, p. 16 seq.

The Palestinian Talmud, although used by the Qaraites in their controversies, fell into neglect, and the Babylonian recension became, what it has since been, the authoritative guide.

The Geonim in their " Responses " or " Questions and Answers " supplied authoritative interpretations of the Old Testament or of the Talmud, and regulated the application of the teaching of the past to the changed conditions under which their brethren now lived.

In any case, the Talmud must be judged, like other authoritative religious literature, by its place in history and by its survival.

The Talmud itself is still the authoritative and practical guide of the great mass of the Jews, and is too closely connected with contemporary and earlier Palestinian history to of be neglected by Christians.

This union, however, exerts no authoritative action over the separate churches.

Naturally, after 1544, when the Council of Trent had formally declared the Bible and tradition to be equally authoritative sources of all Christian doctrine, the contrast between the old and the new teaching became more obvious; and in many countries a middle party arose which aimed at a compromise by going back to the Church of the Fathers.

Frederick, whose authoritative temper was at once offended by the independent tone of the Arnoldist party, concluded with the pope a treaty of alliance (October 16, 1152) of such a nature that the Arnoldists were at once put in a minority in the Roman government; and when the second successor of Eugenius III., the energetic and austere Adrian IV.(the Englishman, Nicholas Breakspear), placed Rome under an interdict, the senate, already rudely shaken, submitted, and Arnold was forced to fly into Campania (1155).

His laborious operations for determining the mean density of the earth, carried on by Henry Cavendish's method (1838-1842), yielded for it the authoritative value of 5.66.

His fame as a lawyer rests on his authoritative exposition of the Code Napoleon in his Principes de droit civil (Brussels, 33 vols., 1869-1878), and his Droit civil international (Brussels, 8 vols., 1880-1881).

The boundaries as fixed by Congress were rejected by a convention which met on the 4th of September at Ann Arbor, but they were accepted by the convention of the Jackson party, which met, also at Ann Arbor, on the 6th of December; the action of this latter convention was considered authoritative by Congress, which admitted Michigan into the Union as a state on the 26th of January 1837.