exaugurate

English

Etymology

From Latin exauguratus, past participle of exaugurare (“to profane”), from ex (“out”) + augurari (“to act as an augur”), from augur.

Verb

exaugurate (third-person singular simple present exaugurates, present participle exaugurating, simple past and past participle exaugurated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To annul the consecration of; to secularize or unhallow.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 exaugurate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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