aberuncate

present singular third person aberuncates · participle present aberuncating · participle past aberuncated · past aberuncated

1. raretransitiveTo eradicate; to pull up by the roots.First known use 18th c.

   those embryonical conceits which quaversally disposed intellects too often neglect, abort and aberuncate for clamouring projects more fully formed […].

   1983, Alasdair Gray, “Logopandocy”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 136

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   His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.

   1782, James Thomson Callender, Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson: Selected from his works

   The deprivation of abbacy reduced the auld abbey-lubber to an aberrant state, devoid of adjument; and sad reverse! from the soft indulgence of accubation, his feet were daily abraded, in arenulous situations, in aberuncating roots for his sustenance, on sectivous mountains.

   1808, John MacDonald, A treatise on talegraphic communication, navel, military, and political