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/ˈɔθərˌaɪzd vˈərʒən/ Listen

adjective

Authorized adj.

Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.

Sanctioned by authority.

The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be read in churches," and has been the accepted English Bible. The Revised Version was published in a complete form in 1855.

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"Authorized version" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tradition, Respectability, Propriety, Dignity, Taste and Form, which make up the social set's picture of itself, a picture assiduously implanted in the children. In this picture a large space is tacitly given to an authorized version of what each set is called upon inwardly to accept as the social standing of the others. The more vulgar press for an outward expression of the deference due, the others are decently and sensitively silent about their own knowledge that such deference invisibly exists. But that knowledge, becoming ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... margin of the authorized version the verse is translated thus "A great man grieveth all and he hireth the fool, he ...

— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... They are not running away. They have been married ten years at least. In a proper elopement, they forget there are such things as jewels and they always carry each other. I've often looked up the statistics and it's the only authorized version. As I regard this treasure, I grow faint when I remember with what unnecessary force my father bore down when he carved the ham. I'll bet a cooky he split those orange trees. Now me——I'll never dare touch knife ...

— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter

... St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. For Readers of the Authorized Version or the Original Greek. Demy ...

— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux

... Protestant heresiarchs. Those of Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin, whether in their original languages or translated, are condemned absolutely and without exception. Next follow regulations for securing the monopoly of the Vulgate, considered as the sole authorized version of the Holy Scriptures. Translations of portions of the Bible made by learned men in Latin may be used by scholars with permission of a bishop, provided it be understood that they are never appealed to as the inspired text. Translations into any vernacular idiom are strictly excluded ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds