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Derogate v. t. (past & past part. derogated; pres. part. derogating)

To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; said of a law. "By several contrary customs,... many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated."

To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; said of a person or thing. (R.) "Anything... that should derogate, minish, or hurt his glory and his name."

Derogate v. i.

To take away; to detract; to withdraw; usually with from. "If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great." "It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity."

To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. (R.) "You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate." "Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?"

noun

Derogate n. Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded. (R.)

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"Derogate" Quotes from Famous Books

... mixture of the ancient rhapsodist with the modern strolling actor, of the lord with him who lives by his wits. Scot as he was, he was better fitted to teach anything rather than common sense. The writer must not give the idea, however, that there was in Lord Ogilvie anything but eccentricity to derogate from the honors of either his lineage or his learning. A very solid teacher he was not. A great enthusiast by nature, and a master of the whole art of discoursing finely of even those things which he knew ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... importance, as showing its burghal character, is, that there are three separate precepts of Parliament—in 1570, 1581, and 1600—summoning Commissioners to Parliament from the Burgh. No doubt the names of the Commissioners do not appear in the Rolls of Parliament, but that did not derogate from the right of the Burgh to send them; and the probable cause of their not having been sent, and of the infrequency of Auchterarder appearing in the public records, arose from its being completely inland, and without foreign ...

— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various

... reason. That we possess reason is also a fact that carries with it its own evidence. It is reason which at this very moment—reason of some sort, at any rate—I am bound to use, in estimating the important place or the unimportant place which reason itself should occupy. You cannot derogate from the value of reason without using reason. You cannot put reason into an inferior category, when compared with will or instinct or emotion, without using reason itself ...

— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys

... unwise it is to derogate from the ancient rights of those on whom it is incumbent to prove the purity of blood of the sovereign of this land. However, Rameses sits on the throne; may life bloom for him, with health and strength!"—[A formula which even in private letters constantly ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... The Prince knew the Neapolitan Ambassador, whom he had often seen with the Duchess. He had been one of the first to visit the Duchess of Palma. A man of intelligence and devotion to pleasure, he thought he did not at all derogate from his dignity by civility to a young and beautiful woman, who bore so nobly the name which was conferred on her ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

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