Definition of "unauthoritative" [unauthoritative]

• Not authoritative.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Some of it -- most of it is unauthoritative, that is to say, it is coming from people who heard from somebody about something or believe there might be a situation that could be characterized as encouraging from our standpoint."
• "But for all this he incurs that penalty of seeming factitious and unauthoritative, which is always the result of an artist's attempt to project himself into an atmosphere in which he has not a transmitted and inherited property."
• "On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them?"