disauthorize

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ authorize.

Verb

disauthorize (third-person singular simple present disauthorizes, present participle disauthorizing, simple past and past participle disauthorized)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.
    • 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education:
      disauthorize a Note

References

disauthorize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.