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

  1. (obsolete) To deprive of authority or office; to depose or discharge.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exauthorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)