degrader (1171-74)

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degrader (1171-74)

[ FEW: 4,206b gradus; Gdf: ; GdfC: 9,292a degrader; TL: 2,1307 degrader /2,1601 desgrader; DEAF: ; DMF:  dégrader; TLF:  dégrader; OED:  degrade v.; MED:  degraden v.; DMLBS: 595c degradare ]
desgrader  

v.n.

1mil.to degrade, deprive (of rank or office)
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  S’evesques u prestre est esliz e alevez [...] que il seit degradez  4802
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  (any cleric causing the death of another person) A seinz ordres ne purra mie […] estre avancé, Einz deivent estre tuz degradé  8146
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  jekes autaunt qe il soint desgradez de lour ordres  i 200
( 1317 )  il est destourbé (var. degradédeggracié) et issint hors  Ed II xxii 65
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  il fu escumengé et degradé de chescun estat de clerc  260.26
( 1351-52 )  esquelles choses ne deussent pas estre faites [...] pur quecumqe crime s’ils ne fuissent primes atteintz et degradez par lour ordiners  ii 244
( 1393-94 )  [...] a degrader & deposer [...] le Roi  iii 234
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