1. Without admitted author; anonymous.
1713. Guardian, No. 133. The false aspersions some authorless tongues have laid upon me.
1869. Spectator, 3 July, 797. After 1715 his works were apparently authorless, or issued under fictitious and assumed names.
2. Without originator; uncreated.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 64. The Sánkhyas would have it [the Veda] to be authorless.
3. Void of authors or writers.
1879. B. Wheatley, Catal. Med. Chirurg. Soc. Libr., Pref. 13. A long interval of authorless years.