Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of credit or authority; discredit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To deprive of
credit orauthority ; todiscredit .
Etymologies
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dis- + authorize
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Examples
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That the Spanish Ministry, in accepting the resignation of a functionary whose services they have been utilizing and valuing up to that time, leaves it perfectly well established that they do not share, and rather, on the contrary, disauthorize the criticisms tending to offend or censure the chief of a friendly State, although such criticisms had been written within the field of friendship and had reached publicity by artful and criminal means.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904
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