Word Meanings - DEGRADATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.

• Knight banneret
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field o
• Knight Templar
  See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
• Reducement
  Reduction.
• Standard-bred
  Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
• BISHOPSLEEVE
  A wide sleeve, once worn by women.
• Bishoped
  of Bishop
• STANDARDBRED
  Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. [U. S.]
• Characteristical
  Characteristic.
• Generalization
  The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.
• Generalized
  of Generalize
• Knight baro-net
  See Baronet.
• Reducent
  Tending to reduce.
• Standardize
  To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
• BISHOPSLENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
• Bishoping
  of Bishop
• STANDARDWING
  A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• Characteristically
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• Generalizing
  of Generalize
• Knight-errants
  of Knight-errant

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