deauthenticate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From de- + authenticate.
Verb
[edit]deauthenticate (third-person singular simple present deauthenticates, present participle deauthenticating, simple past and past participle deauthenticated)
- (transitive) To reject as authentic; to falsify or disprove.
- 1827, Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence:
- In the hand of what person soever it be alleged by the witness to be, a case may happen in which it may be material (though at the expense of a distinct enquiry) to authenticate or deauthenticate it by ulterior evidence.
- (transitive, computing) To revoke the authentication of; to cause no longer to be authenticated.