单词 | disrate |
释义 | disratev. 1. transitive. To reduce (a petty officer or non-commissioned officer of marines) to a lower rating or rank. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > appoint to rank [verb (transitive)] > demote ungenerala1657 to reduce to (formerly also into) the ranks?1758 disrate1811 1811 Naval Chron. 25 28 Having been disrated for some offence. 1829 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 41 406 He found it necessary to disrate Peter Hayles, the pirate. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 85 This witness had been chief mate..but had been disrated..for drunkenness. 2. To remove (a ship) from its rate or class. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [verb (transitive)] > place or remove vessel in or from class disrate1885 rate1885 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 246 The ‘Tyrian’, another ‘yellow-fever ship’, was disrated for the same reason. 3. figurative. To remove from one's rank or position. ΚΠ 1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 200 He..had disrated himself from the genteel company of a ten-miles-wide circuit. 1883 G. Turner in Good Words Dec. 778/1 There is..no just reason for dis-rating ‘which’ from its old relation to persons as well as to things. Derivatives disˈrated adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [adjective] > degraded degraded1483 debased1593 sunk1618 hang-dog1677 meanc1680 unpedestalled1823 vilified1828 disrated1891 1891 Daily News 21 Nov. 4/6 What are the Tories going to do with all the disrated Liberal Secessionists? disˈrating n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval service > [noun] > demotion of petty officer disrating1834 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xviii. 242 If you please, your honour, I'd rather take my disrating—I—don't wish to be chief boatswain's mate in this here business. 1894 Gloss. Terms Evid. Royal Comm. Labour 36/2 in Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 7063–VC) XXXVIII. 411 Disrating, A nautical term for ‘disranking’, that is, reducing from a higher rank to a lower, such as lowering a man from A.B. to ordinary seaman, or from fireman to trimmer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < v.1811 |
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