disgrade
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disgrade (third-person singular simple present disgrades, present participle disgrading, simple past and past participle disgraded)
- (obsolete) To degrade.
- 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
- disgrade him from his first tonsure
- (transitive) To deprive of rank or status.
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“disgrade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.