English edit

Etymology edit

de- +‎ cardinal +‎ -ize

Verb edit

decardinalize (third-person singular simple present decardinalizes, present participle decardinalizing, simple past and past participle decardinalized)

  1. (transitive) To depose from the rank of cardinal.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for decardinalize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)