deturbate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin deturbatus, past participle of deturbare, from Latin deturbare (“to thrust down”).
Verb
[edit]deturbate (third-person singular simple present deturbates, present participle deturbating, simple past and past participle deturbated)
- (obsolete) To evict; to remove.
- 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
- And where is now , Master Cope , this your rejecting , expelling , removing , expulsing , exempting , deturbating and thrusting out , of Anatholius , Sother , Dorothea , and other holy saints , out of catalogues , fasts , and calendars?
References
[edit]“deturbate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]dēturbāte