† disˈgraduate, v. Obs.
[f. dis- 7 b + graduate n.]
trans. To depose from a degree or dignity, deprive of rank or privilege; = disgrade, degraduate.
| 1528 Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 73 b, Yf they be of mine anointed, and beare my marke, disgresse them (I wold saye, disgraduate them). 1550 Nicolls Thucyd. 135 (R.) The saide Lacedemonions did desgraduate and declaire those to be deffamed and dishonoured, that were takene by the Athenyans in the Islande. |