dehonestate
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin dehonestatus, past participle of dehonestare (“to dishonour”).
Verb edit
dehonestate (third-person singular simple present dehonestates, present participle dehonestating, simple past and past participle dehonestated)
- (obsolete, rare, transitive) To disparage.
- 1825, Charles Lamb, “Unitarian Protests”, in London Magazine:
- dehonestate the intellects of married women
References edit
“dehonestate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Verb edit
dehonestāte