单词 | disauthenticate |
释义 | disauthenticatev. transitive. To prove or assert to be inauthentic; to confirm as not genuine or authoritative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)] > by proving error or weakness reprovea1398 falsifyc1449 enervate1565 convince1583 disprove1584 imposture1622 distest1647 disauthenticate1658 convict1717 negative1790 unsubstantiate1799 to show up1893 1658 E. Hyde Justif. Church of Eng. i. vi. in Christ & his Church 574 That by discountenancing, nay indeed by disauthenticating the known Text, they might countenance and authorize their own inventions. 1760 Life & Adventures of Cat 79 Very grave and credible writers both ancient and modern, whom, nevertheless we do not pretend to discredit, nor do presume to dis-authenticate. 1798 ‘A Lover of Truth’ Revelation 145 This Thomas Paine, who pretends to disauthenticate the scriptures by means of their internal evidence. 1895 A. W. Benn in Academy 1 June 457/2 Among passages disauthenticated, or at least pronounced doubtful. 1917 Marquette Law Rev. 1 132 Those whose special knowledge and experience has been held to qualify them..to authenticate or disauthenticate a document. 1998 Sci. Fiction Stud. 25 556 Nothing in the tales can ‘disauthenticate’ the supernatural beings that appear in them. 2011 M. Norris Virgin & Veteran Readings of Ulysses vi. 129 The implicatum..is an untruth that is further disauthenticated in ‘Lestrygonians’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1658 |
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