authrix

Noun

author (plural authors)

1. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
   • The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.

   Synonyms:

   bookwright, creator, artist, subcreator, fabulator, writer

2. (US) The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship.
   • The author named on the copyright registration for the Android robot is Google Inc.
3. Someone who writes books for a living.
4. (obsolete, criminal law) Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
   • We hear […]of fratricidal murders, and stern reprisals on their authors.1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 10, page 158
5. (archaic) One's authority for something: an informant.
   • Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd^([sic]) 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 […]1699, Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus
6. (figuratively) The creator or cause of anything.
   • The other, standing nearly head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little eyes for the author of its hurt.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg, published March 1915, →OCLC, page 132

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