1534 tr. Erasmus Epis. Christopher, Bishop of Basle 65 I do nat suppose ye there is any man but he wyl graunt that the lawes of god which he him selfe made & ordayned are more to be re graded & set by than ye lawes made by men.

1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) f. 216^v All heretikes & so many as did in any point resiste the Catholike faith,..if they were priests or of the Clergye, they should first of al be regraded from their orders.

1602 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Charteris) l. 1765 in Wks. (1931) II. 179 He was regraidit of his croun, And baneist aff his Regioun.

1605 G. Saltern Of Antient Laws Great Brit. sig. I^v Elutherius..ordained that none should be regraded before he were condemned.

1811 W. Hales New Anal. Chronol. II. 897 They saw the darkness commence at the eastern limb of the sun, and proceed to the western, till the whole was eclipsed; and then regrade backwards from the western to the eastern, till his light was fully restored.

1884 Eng. Mechanic 18 Jan. 425/3 Trains would seem to leave their destination and arrive at their starting places, balls travel into the muzzles of guns, men regrade from old age to infancy.

1826 A. Macomb Let. 18 Nov. in Reg. Deb. Congr. U.S. (1829) III. 1572 The road..is to be regraded.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 362 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV They [sc. shells] may be readily and rapidly leveled in the construction of a new road, or regraded when displaced by wear.

1884 Cent. Mag. Mar. 649/2 The city was torn up from one end to the other, and regraded.

1887 Proc. 11th Convent. Amer. Instructors of Deaf 141 You may start out..with a class well graded, and before you have been at work three months you will find that you ought to regrade.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 26 Jan. 70/2 The pigs are..regraded by the Association's own system of selective grading.

1977 Times 18 Mar. 4/5 Unless the corporation offers to regrade the cameramen there is little chance that their union..will allow the programme to go ahead.

1992 Scotsman 16 Apr. 10/3 The tribunal dismissed her complaint and said..it did not think she had a right to have that post regraded.

1882 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 9 Aug. 4/3 (heading) Regraded and degraded cotton.

1923 Glasgow Herald 28 Mar. 10 Heavy extraordinary expenditure has to be budgeted for, including three-quarters of a million for arrears of regraded salaries.

2003 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Oct. c03 Concrete Jersey barriers..will continue to be replaced with low stone walls set into a regraded landscape.

1844 S. Owen N.Y. Legal Observer II. 86/1 The original ordinances for the regrading of Chapel-street, and for the construction of the sewer therein.

1906 Times 3 Mar. 13/2 In the expenditure on railway account are included payments of £84,000 for relaying and regrading.

1995 Independent 20 Mar. 1/2 Bitterness over their regrading and downgrading, which has led to many midwives having to accept pay cuts.