ex-auctōro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. Milit. t. t., to discharge from service (after sixteen years of service, before the end of the usual term of twenty years, i. e. before the regular missio; see missio. This discharge was either an honorable one or a punishment. The honorably discharged soldiers remained four years in the army as a separate corps under a vexillum, with peculiar privileges; cf. mitto, dimitto).
I Prop.
A Of an honorable discharge (not ante-Aug.): omnes milites exauctorati domum dimitterentur, Liv. 32, 1; 25, 20; 29, 1; 36, 40 fin. ; 41, 5 fin. ; Suet. Tib. 30; Tac. A. 1, 36 fin. : milites licentia sola se, ubi velint, exauctorent, Liv. 8, 34, 9.—
B In a bad sense, to dismiss , cashier on account of a crime = dimittere ignominiae causa, Dig. 3, 2, 2, § 2; Suet. Aug. 24; id. Vitell. 10; id. Vesp. 8; Tac. H. 1, 20; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 5; cf. Dict. of Antiq. p. 638 a.—*
II Trop.: verba exauctorata a sequenti aetate repudiataque, discarded , obsolete , Macr. S. 1, 5.