{"def":{"short":"privilege, i.e., (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence","long":["power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases",["leave or permission"],"physical and mental power",["the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises"],"the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)","the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)",["universally",["authority over mankind"],"specifically",["the power of judicial decisions","of authority to manage domestic affairs"],"metonymically",["a thing subject to authority or rule",["jurisdiction"],"one who possesses authority",["a ruler, a human magistrate","the leading and more powerful among created beings superior to man, spiritual potentates"]],"a sign of the husband's authority over his wife",["the veil with which propriety required a women to cover herself"],"the sign of regal authority, a crown"]]},"deriv":"from G1832 (in the sense of ability)","pronun":{"ipa":"ɛk͡s.uˈsi.ɑ","ipa_mod":"e̞k͡s.uˈsi.ɑ","sbl":"exousia","dic":"eks-oo-SEE-ah","dic_mod":"ayks-oo-SEE-ah"},"see":["G1832"]}