exauthorate

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verbexauthorate (third-person singular simple present exauthorates, present participle exauthorating, simple past and past participle exauthorated)

present singular third person exauthorates · participle present exauthorating · participle past exauthorated · past exauthorated · alternative exauctorate

obsoleteTo deprive of authority or power
Exauthorated for their unworthiness.
1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC
Synonyms: depose, discharge, exauthorize

verbTo deprive of authority or power

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From Latin exauctoratus, past participle of exauctorare (“to dismiss”), from ex (“out”) + auctorare (“to bind to something, to hire”), from auctor. See author.

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