Obs. [f. prec. sb.]
1. To be the author of an action; to originate, cause, occasion.
1596. Chapman, Iliad, I. 231. The last foul thing Thou ever author’dst.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIII. lxxviii. (1612), 322. A good God may not aucthor noysome things.
1632. Sir J. Eliot, in Four C. Eng. Lett., 65. The divine blessing … which authors all the happiness we receive.
2. To be the author of a statement; to state, declare, say.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., Epit. (1612), 352. Brute is authored to haue arriued in this Iland … in the year of the worlds age 2855.
1632. Massinger & Field, Fatal Dowry, IV. ii. More of him I dare not author.
