degraded
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See degrade and compare French degré (“step”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
degraded (comparative more degraded, superlative most degraded)
- Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
- 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- The Netherlands […] were reduced, practically, to a very degraded condition.
- (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea:
- The Grapsoid species are represented of a degraded form in Porcellana
- (heraldry, not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
- 1725, A New Dictionary of Heraldry ... Illustrated with 196 devices on copper ... Revis'd and corrected, with a letter to the publisher, by Mr. James Coates, page 98:
- A Cross degraded Fitchee.
- 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 168:
- Ar. a cross, degraded, sa.
- 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 99:
- Argent, a cross degraded and conjoined, (or issuing from eight degrees,) sable. WYNT-WORTH.
Synonyms[edit]
- (deprived of dignity): humiliated
Translations[edit]
Feeling or having undergone degradation
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Verb[edit]
degraded
- simple past and past participle of degrade
Further reading[edit]
- 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 161:
- Consequently a cross degraded (fr. à degrés, and sometimes enserrée de degrés and peronnée) and conjoined signifies a plain cross, having its extremities placed upon steps joined to the sides of the shield.