1) power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases
    1a) leave or permission
 2) physical and mental power
    2a) the ability or strength with which one is endued, which
        he either possesses or exercises
 3) the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)
 4) the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will
    and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)
    4a) universally
        4a1) authority over mankind
    4b) specifically
        4b1) the power of judicial decisions
        4b2) of authority to manage domestic affairs
    4c) metonymically
        4c1) a thing subject to authority or rule
             4c1a) jurisdiction
        4c2) one who possesses authority
             4c2a) a ruler, a human magistrate
             4c2b) the leading and more powerful among created beings
                   superior to man, spiritual potentates
    4d) a sign of the husband's authority over his wife
        4d1) the veil with which propriety required a women to cover
             herself
    4e) the sign of regal authority, a crown

 For Synonyms see entry G5820