disauthorize

disauthorize

(dɪsˈɔːθəˌraɪz) or

disauthorise

vb (tr)
archaic formal to take authority away from (a person or organization)
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Was it not enough to disturbe the common peace, to alienate the hearts of the Commons, to stirre up a restles and factious Rebell, to muster out a league of mutinous and riotous conspirators, to discountenance and overbeare a lawfull king, to weaken, to disauthorize, and last of al most furiously to murder him, but presently they which stand in the gate must laugh at it, the drunkards make songs of it, and thou thy selfe Sixtus like a parasite upon a stage applaudest unto it?
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Pentecostals and other Christians should challenge and disauthorize claims to prophesy, signs and wonders, and "spiritual blessings" when these are but alienations, manipulations and escapism.