Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To avert or ward off.
- [Improp.: see etym.] To weed; pull up by the roots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To avert; to ward off.
- transitive verb obsolete To root up.
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- verb transitive To
avert ; toward off . - verb transitive To root up.
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"averruncate" (from Lat. _averruncare_, to ward off, remove mischief) glided into meaning to "weed the ground," "prune vines," &c., by a supposed derivation from the Lat. _ab_, off, and _eruncare_, to weed out, and it was spelt "aberuncate" to suit this; but the _New English Dictionary_ regards such a derivation as impossible.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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