Obs. Also 7 exaut[h]oration. [as if ad. L. *exauctōrātiōn-em, n. of action f. exauctōrāre: see prec. Cf. Fr. exauthoration (Cotgr.).] The action of ‘exauctorating.’
1. Discharge from military service.
a. 1654. Bp. J. Richardson, Observ. Old Test. (1655), 327 (T.). no discharge in that warre] No weapon against it, no dismission from it, no vacation, or exauctoration.
1725. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 17th C., I. II. ii. 30. Degradation … is founded on the Example of Military Exauctoration.
2. a. Deprivation of office or authority; degradation. b. Abolition (of an office); annulling (of authority).
1625. Donne, Serm., 3 April, 17. Exautorations and Excommunications amongst the Bishops.
1641. Heylin, Help to Hist. (1671), 156. On the exauctoration of Bishop Heath, it was assigned … to Master Hooper.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, I. xxi. 267. To protect and nourish those that will prove ministers of their [kings’] own exauctoration.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Rem. Wks. (1660), 308. Do not you think that those … went somewhat too far?… In the exauthoration of Episcopal office and dignity…?
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 206. Deposition, Degradation or Exauctoration … is … the removing of a Person from some Degree, Dignity or Order in the Church.
1822. Eliza Nathan, Langreath, II. 271. I would have used my influence to have averted your exauctoration. [Said by a person fond of pedantic language.]
1834. Coleridge, Lit. Rem., III. 207. Little did Taylor forsee that to indiscreet avowals like these … the exauctorations of the Bishops … would be in no small portion attributable.
