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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1705-1718, 1818
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†EXAUCTORATE, v. Also exauchtorate, exaucterate. To depose from office, to relieve of authority. Found gen. as pa.p. and ppl.adj. exauctorate. Obs. in Eng. in 18th and in Sc. in 19th cent.Sc. 1705 Rec. Conv. Burghs (1880) 365:
Any act of the magistrats and toun counsell . . . exaucterating, divesting, and depriving him of the said office.Abd. 1714 in T. Mair Ellon Presb. Rec. (1898) 325:
He went and took orders from "ane exauchtorate Bishop."Sc. 1718 R. Wodrow Corresp. (1843) II. 370:
If we refuse to baptise in families, people will go to . . . the exauctorate Episcopal clergy, and leave our communion.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian iv.:
He [Porteous] being then in point of trust and in point of power . . . but after Wilson was cut down, it was a' ower — he was clean exauctorate.
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