DEROGATE
\dˈɛɹəɡˌe͡ɪt], \dˈɛɹəɡˌeɪt], \d_ˈɛ_ɹ_ə_ɡ_ˌeɪ_t]\
Definitions of DEROGATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate.
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Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.
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To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; - said of a law.
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To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; - said of a person or thing.
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To take away; to detract; to withdraw; - usually with from.
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To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate.
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Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.
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To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; - said of a law.
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To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; - said of a person or thing.
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To take away; to detract; to withdraw; - usually with from.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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der'o-g[=a]t, v.i. to lessen by taking away: to detract.--adj. (Shak.) degenerate.--adv. DER'OG[=A]TELY (Shak.), in a derogatory manner.--n. DEROG[=A]'TION, a taking from: detraction: depreciation.--adv. DEROG'ATORILY.--n. DEROG'ATORINESS.--adj. DEROG'ATORY, detracting: injurious. [L. derog[=a]re, -[=a]tum, to repeal part of a law--de, down from, and rog[=a]re, to propose a law.]
By Thomas Davidson
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