exauthorate
verbEtymology 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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Obsolete To 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:
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