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. degradé; deggracié) 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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degrader (1171-74)