Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To reduce in rank or rating; demote.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, to reduce to a lower rating, as a petty officer, or a non-commissioned officer of marines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
lower arate orrating - verb nautical To
demote a sailor to a lowerrank
Etymologies
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Examples
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I disrate you on account of your unfitness for the post, and you will now return to your former rating, as I have restored your name to the list of the crew.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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They gave their services for nothing, and the only way in which we could repay them was to select two chief Petty Officers from their number, disrate them, and take them Poleward as ordinary seamen.
South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918
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In your cablegram received to-day, you take occasion to remind us that no manager or owner has authority to disrate a ship's officer.
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Owner can fire captain but only captain can fire or disrate ship's officers.
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But I hope you'll take care of the rest of my crew, and not disrate them after I am dead in favour of new followers.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910
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As they're not sailors, I mean to disrate them to boys at five dollars a month.
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888
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Snakes an 'alligators, I'll disrate ye -- I'll send ye forrud;
The Island Treasure 1887
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It is obvious, too, that if giving a man a higher rating be a source of encouragement, to disrate him may readily be used as a means of punishment.
The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862
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"I appreciate your feeling, my lad," he answered; "but even if he does return I won't disrate you, and I will see how we can best manage to get you an outfit."
Won from the Waves William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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I'll disrate you, by God, you damned molly mop; is that the way you handle a cat? that's only wiping the dirt off his back.
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820
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