Meanings
present singular third person deauthenticates · participle present deauthenticating · participle past deauthenticated · past deauthenticated
- transitiveTo reject as authentic; to falsify or disprove.
In the hand of what person soever it be alleged by the witness to be, a case may happen in which it may be material (though at the expense of a distinct enquiry) to authenticate or deauthenticate it by ulterior evidence.
1827, Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence - transitivecomputingTo revoke the authentication of; to cause no longer to be authenticated.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*de
- Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
- Proto-Italic*dē
- Latindē
- Latindē-
- Englishde-
- Medieval Latinauthenticō
- Englishauthenticate
- Englishdeauthenticate
From de- + authenticate.
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