v. Obs. In 6 -toryse. [f. EX- + AUTHORIZE.] trans. a. To depose from office. b. To deprive of authority; = EXAUCTORATE v.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, II. (1550), 93. The kynge made an acte, that men of the church commyttynge offences notable, shulde be exautorysed or dysgraded by the byshop of the dyocese.
1612. Selden, in Drayton, Poly-olb., xvii. Notes 272. Sometimes animating the subject by censorious exauthorizing the Prince.
1629. Wadsworth, Sp. Pilgr., vi. 52. The Iesuites endeauoring by all possible meanes to exauthorize him vnder hand.
1632. in Sherwood.
