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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disrate .
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Examples
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I would be disrated and go before the mast to-morrow, to be shown the way upward again by such a guide.
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I would be disrated and go before the mast to-morrow, to be shown the way upward again by such a guide.
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My sergeant was an ex-miner named Farrell, and he started stirring up the others, so I cut orders to have him transferred and disrated.
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Uhura cleared her throat, and the officers stepped back, looking sheepishly at the vene-disrated Vulcan.
Mind Meld Vornholt, John 1997
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You had better, therefore, move your chest aft and take the second cabin next to the steward's pantry, hitherto occupied by Davis, whom I have just disrated and sent to fill your place in the fo'c's'le.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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The upshot was that poor Macan was put under arrest and confined in the cells that night; and when brought before the captain the next day for insubordination and drunkenness, as he had no excuse to offer he was disrated, losing his rank of corporal, with all its perquisites and privileges!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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In the evening General Longstreet told me that he had just received intelligence that Hooker had been disrated and Meade was appointed in his place.
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But I've been disrated before and we'll let that pass.
Wide Courses 1912
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For cause, he disrated his chief officers: and so asserted in that desolate place, as fearlessly as he would have asserted it in an English harbor, that aboard his ship his will was law.
Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909
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It was not so much that she was at once and forever disrated, broke, sent before the mast, and branded as one on whom no reliance could be placed, even with Edward safe at school, and myself under the distant vigilance of an aunt; that her pocket money was stopped
Dream Days 1898
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