Latin

Verb

exauctōrō ‎(present infinitive exauctōrāre, perfect active exauctōrāvī, supine exauctōrātum); first conjugation

1. I release or discharge honourably from military service
2. I discharge or dismiss dishonourably from military service
   • Pliny the Younger, Book 6, Epistle 31 to Cornelian:

     Caesar excussis probationibus centurionem exauctoravit atque etiam relegavit.

     Caesar, on the examined evidence, discharged and furthermore banished the centurion.

3. (figuratively) I dismiss, discard or cashier (for ignominious cause)

Inflection

Descendants

• Italian: esautorare

References

• exauctoro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exauctoro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exauctoro”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.