exinanite

verb

1. To make (something) weak and ineffective; to enervate.

   obsolete, transitive

2. To empty someone of their power and dignity (usually said of Christ).

   obsolete, transitive

   For this thinke in your ſelues, vvhich alſo in Chriſt Iesvs, vvho vvhen he vvas in the forme of God, thought it no robberie, him ſelf to be equal to God, but he exinanited him ſelf, taking the forme of a ſeruant, made into the ſimilitude of men, and in ſhape found as man.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin exinānīt-, exinānīre (“to empty the contents of; to drain or pour out”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry exinanite (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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