1644. Hunton, Vind. Treat. Monarchy, v. 39. Is that … Authoritative; or merely Consiliarie and unauthoritative?
1780. Bentham, Princ. Legisl., xix. § 22. A Book of expository Jurisprudence is either authoritative or unauthoritative.
1851. H. W. Torrens, Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 14. The vague and unauthoritative character of this learned writer’s deductions.
1884. Dowell, Taxation, IV. iii. I. 67. An abstract, imperfect and unauthoritative, of the Regent’s Act of confirmation.
Hence Unauthoritatively adv.; -ness.
1644. Hunton, Vind. Treat. Monarchy, iv. 27. It brings an illegality and unauthoritativenesse on acts exceeding.
a. 1827. in Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid., V. 595, note. To speak of the unauthoritatively … described act as evidence of the authoritatively … expressed one.
