disgraduate
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Etymology[edit]
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disgraduate (third-person singular simple present disgraduates, present participle disgraduating, simple past and past participle disgraduated)
- (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[edit]
- “disgraduate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.