<OL TYPE="1"><LI>power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases<OL TYPE="a"><LI>leave or permission</OL><LI>physical and mental power<OL TYPE="a"><LI>the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises</OL><LI>the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)<LI>the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)<OL TYPE="a"><LI>universally<OL TYPE="1"><LI>authority over mankind</OL><LI>specifically<OL TYPE="1"><LI>the power of judicial decisions<LI>of authority to manage domestic affairs</OL><LI>metonymically<OL TYPE="1"><LI>a thing subject to authority or rule 4c</OL><LI>jurisdiction<OL TYPE="2"><LI>one who possesses authority 4c</OL><LI>a ruler, a human magistrate 4c<LI>the leading and more powerful among created beings superior to man, spiritual potentates<LI>a sign of the husband's authority over his wife<OL TYPE="1"><LI>the veil with which propriety required a women to cover herself</OL><LI>the sign of regal authority, a crown</OL></OL>