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authorless

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au⋅thor

  [aw-ther]
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–noun
1. a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
2. the literary production or productions of a writer: to find a passage in an author.
3. the maker of anything; creator; originator: the author of a new tax plan.
4. Computers. the writer of a software program, esp. a hypertext or multimedia application.
–verb (used with object)
5. to write; be the author of: He authored a history of the Civil War.
6. to originate; create a design for: She authored a new system for teaching chemistry.
Origin:
1250–1300; earlier auct(h)or < L auctor writer, progenitor, equiv. to aug(ēre) to increase, augment + -tor -tor; r. ME auto(u)r < AF, for OF autor < L, as above

Related forms:
au⋅tho⋅ri⋅al  [aw-thawr-ee-uhl, aw-thohr-] , adjective
au⋅thor⋅less, adjective
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