disgraduate
English
Etymology
dis- + graduate
Verb
disgraduate (third-person singular simple present disgraduates, present participle disgraduating, simple past and past participle disgraduated)
- (obsolete) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
- 1528, William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man:
- Yf they be of mine anointed, and beare my marke, disgresse them (I wold saye, disgraduate them).
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References
- disgraduate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913