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exauthorate

exauthorate verb: to deprive of authority or power.

Verb

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

  1. (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

Synonyms of exauthorate

Forms of exauthorate

third-person singular presentexauthorates
present participleexauthorating
past participleexauthorated
pastexauthorated
alternative formexauctorate

Origin of exauthorate

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

Questions about exauthorate

What does exauthorate mean?
Exauthorate means to deprive of authority or power.
What part of speech is exauthorate?
Exauthorate is a verb.
What is the past tense of exauthorate?
The past tense of exauthorate is exauthorated.

Words near exauthorate in the dictionary

  1. exaugurated
  2. exaugurates
  3. exaugurating
  4. exauguration
  5. exaugurations
  6. exauthorate
  7. exauthorated
  8. exauthorates
  9. exauthoration
  10. exauthorize
  11. exauthorized

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