Word Meanings - DEGRADEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.

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• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• DEPRIVATION
  the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• DEGRADATION
  A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, fro (more info) 1. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution;
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• SELF-DEGRADATION
  The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.
• OVEROFFICE
  To domineer over by virtue of office. Shak.