Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Averruncate

Averruncate ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Latin averruncare to avert; a, ab, off + verruncare to turn; formerly derived from ab and eruncare to root out. Compare Aberuncate.]

1.
To avert; to ward off. [Obsolete] — Hudibras
2.
To root up. [Obsolete] — Johnson