exaugurate

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verb

To annul the consecration of: to deconsecrate, secularize, profane, or otherwise unhallow (historical) particularly in ancient Roman contexts.

OriginLatin exauguratus →
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Meanings

verbexaugurate (third-person singular simple present exaugurates, present participle exaugurating, simple past and past participle exaugurated)

present singular third person exaugurates · participle present exaugurating · participle past exaugurated · past exaugurated

  1. archaictransitiveTo annul the consecration of: to deconsecrate, secularize, profane, or otherwise unhallow (historical) particularly in ancient Roman contexts.

    [Tarquin] determined to exaugurate and unhallow certain churches and chappels.

    1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book I.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
deconsecrate

Origin

  1. Latinexauguratus
  2. Englishexaugurate

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.

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