ungeneralv.
rare.† 2. To free from generality or vagueness. Obsolete.
1. transitive. To deprive of the rank of general.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > appoint to rank [verb (transitive)] > demote
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to reduce to (formerly also into) the ranks?1758
disrate1811
a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 80 My Lord F. his house (retir'd thither to a private life since he ungenerall'd himself).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > make specific [verb (transitive)] > free from generality or vagueness
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a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 8 I doe not despair..that having gained better intelligence..these persons may be Un-general'd, and impaled in their particular Counties.
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