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- Latin · derived fromexauguratus
- English todayexaugurate
From Latin exauguratus under the influence of English -ate, past participle of exaugurāre (“to deconsecrate, to profane”), from ex (“ex-: undo”) + augurāre (“to act as augur, to consecrate”), from augur + -āre (verb-forming suffix), q.v.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.