† exauthorizev.
Obsolete.
transitive. (a) To depose from office. (b) To deprive of authority; = exauctorate v.
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] > deprive of authority
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1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xciij The kynge made an acte, yt men of the church commyttynge offences notable, shulde be exautorysed or dysgraded by the byshop of the dyocese.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvii. Illustr. 272 Sometimes animating the subiect by censorious exauthorizing the Prince.
1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime vi. 52 The Iesuites endeauoring by all possible meanes to exauthorize him vnder hand.
1632 in R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.)
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