What is another word for "authority"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "authority": accession, accord, administration, administrative, aedile, age, agency, agent, agentship, alguazil, all, and, appointment, arm, assignment, attorney, bailiff, bailiwick, beadle, bearer, bedel, bigwig, bird, brevet, bureau, captive, capture, catchpoll, cause, causidical, charge, charter, choice, choose, clerkship, close, commission, conation, consignee, consignment.