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disrate, v.|dɪsˈreɪt|
[f. dis- 7 a + rate n.]
1. trans. To reduce (a petty officer or non-commissioned officer of marines) to a lower rating or rank.
1811Naval Chron. XXV. 28 Having been disrated for some offence. 1829Southey in Q. Rev. XLI. 406 He found it necessary to disrate Peter Hayles, the pirate. 1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 85 This witness had been chief mate..but had been disrated..for drunkenness.
2. To remove (a ship) from its rate or class.
1885A. Brassey The Trades 246 The ‘Tyrian’, another ‘yellow-fever ship’, was disrated for the same reason.
3. fig. To remove from one's rank or position.
1854Chamb. Jrnl. II. 200 He..had disrated himself from the genteel company of a ten-miles-wide circuit. 1883G. Turner in Gd. Words Dec. 778/1 There is..no just reason for dis-rating ‘which’ from its old relation to persons as well as to things.
Hence disˈrated ppl. a., disˈrating vbl. n.
1833Marryat P. Simple lvi, 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. 1891Daily News 21 Nov. 4/6 What are the Tories going to do with all the disrated Liberal Secessionists? 1894Labour Commission Gloss., 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. |