exaugurate

From Latin exauguratus, past participle of exaugurare (“to profane”), from ex (“out”) + augurari (“to act as an augur”), from augur.

exaugurate (third-person singular simple present exaugurates, present participle exaugurating, simple past and past participle exaugurated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To annul the consecration of; to secularize or unhallow.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book I.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:

     [Tarquin] determined to exaugurate and unhallow certain churches and chappels.

• exaugurate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913