disgraduate

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ graduate.

Verb

disgraduate (third-person singular simple present disgraduates, present participle disgraduating, simple past and past participle disgraduated)

1. (obsolete) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
   • 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Antichrist”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio lxxiij, verso:

     Yf they be of mine annoĩted and beare my marke diſgreſſe thẽ / I wold ſaye diſgraduate thẽ […]

References

• “disgraduate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.