737. Authority -- N. authority; influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction; right &c (title) 924; direction &c 693; government &c 737.1.
737a. Government -- N. government, legal authority, soveriegn, sovereign authority; authority &c 737; master &c 745; direction &c 693.
737b. Politics [contention for governmental authority or influence]. -- N. politics; political science; candidacy, campaign, campaigning, electioneering; partisanship, ideology, factionalism.
738. [Absence of authority] Laxity -- N. laxity; laxness, looseness, slackness; toleration &c (lenity) 740; freedom &c 748.
739. Severity -- N. severity; strictness, harshness &c adj.; rigor, stringency, austerity; inclemency &c (pitilessness) 914.1; arrogance &c 885; precisianism .
740. Lenity -- N. lenity, lenience, leniency; moderation &c 174; tolerance, toleration; mildness, gentleness; favor, indulgence, indulgency ; clemency, mercy, forbearance, quarter; compassion &c 914.
741. Command -- N. command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm , bidding, dictum, hest , behest, call, beck, nod.
742. Disobedience -- N. disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance &c 773.
743. Obedience -- N. obedience; observance &c 772; compliance; submission &c 725; subjection &c 749; nonresistance; passiveness, resignation.
744. Compulsion -- N. compulsion, coercion, coaction , constraint, duress, enforcement, press, conscription.
745. Master -- N. master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander, commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar , sachem, sheik, head, senior, governor, ruler, dictator; leader &c (director) 694; boss, cockarouse , sagamore, werowance .
746. Servant -- N. subject, liegeman ; servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache; official.
747. [Insignia of authority.] Scepter -- N. scepter, regalia, caduceus; Mercury's rod, Mercury's staff, Mercury's wand; rod of empire, mace, fasces , wand; staff, staff of office; baton, truncheon; flag &c (insignia) 550; ensign of authority, emblem of authority, badge of authority, insignia of authority.
749. Subjection -- N. subjection; dependence, dependency; subordination; thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom; feudalism, feudality ; vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude; conquest.
750. Liberation -- N. liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation; disenthrallment , disenthralment ; affranchisement , enfranchisement; manumission; discharge, dismissal.
751. Restraint -- N. restraint; hindrance &c 706; coercion &c (compulsion) 744; cohibition , constraint, repression, suppression; discipline, control.
752. [Means of restraint.] Prison -- N. prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell , house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon , penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure &c 232; isolation (exclusion) 893; penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod [Lat.] ; calaboose, chauki , choky , thana ; workhouse [U.S.] .
753. Keeper -- N. keeper, custodian, custos [Lat.] , ranger, warder, jailer, gaoler, turnkey, castellan , guard; watchdog, watchman; Charley; chokidar , durwan , hayward ; sentry, sentinel; watch and ward; concierge, coast guard, guarda costa [Sp.] , game keeper.
754. Prisoner -- N. prisoner, prisoner of war, POW, captive, inmate, detainee, hostage, abductee , detenu [Fr.] , close prisoner.
755. [Vicarious authority.] Commission -- N. commission, delegation; consignment, assignment; procuration ; deputation, legation, mission, embassy; agency, agentship ; power of attorney; clerkship; surrogacy.
756. Abrogation -- N. abrogation, annulment, nullification, recision; vacatur [Lat.] ; canceling &c v.; cancel; revocation, revokement ; repeal, rescission, defeasance.
757. Resignation -- N. resignation, retirement, abdication, renunciation, abjuration; abandonment, relinquishment.
758. Consignee -- N. consignee, trustee, nominee, committee.
759. Deputy -- N. deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens, badli , delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary.