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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

... Romuald in selecting a site for his Camaldolese did not derogate from the apparently instinctive wisdom which seems to have inspired the founders of monasteries of every order and in every country of Europe. Invariably the positions of the religious houses were admirably well chosen; and that of Camaldoli is no exception to the rule. The convent is not visible ...

— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... shall derogate from existing obligations that Contracting Parties have to each other under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary ...

— Supplementary Copyright Statutes • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

... incipient efforts in the work of creation. For if deformed beings are sometimes born even now, when the scheme of the universe is fully developed, many more may have been "sent before their time scarce half made up," when the planet itself was in the embryo state. But if these notions appear to derogate from the perfection of the Divine attributes, and if these mummies be in all their parts true representations of the human form, may we not refer them to the future rather than the past? May we not be looking into the womb of Nature, and ...

— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various

... was flushed with joy, and his heart was warmed with the pleasing sensations of affection and confidence, by the same letter, from which ALMORAN had extracted the bitterness of jealousy and resentment, and as he had no idea that an act of courtesy to his brother could derogate from his own dignity or importance, he indulged the honest impatience of his heart to communicate the pleasure with which it overflowed: he was, indeed, somewhat disappointed, to find no traces of ...

— Almoran and Hamet • John Hawkesworth

... not omit to call him to account for his behavior to Granvella, and alluded particularly to the livery invented in derision of the cardinal. Egmont protested that the whole affair had originated in a convivial joke, and nothing was further from their meaning than to derogate in the least from the respect that was due to royalty. "If he knew," he said, "that any individual among them had entertained such disloyal thoughts be himself would challenge him to answer for it ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

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