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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