disrate

In your cablegram received to-day, you take occasion to remind us that no manager or owner has authority to disrate a ship's officer.

From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

They gave their services for nothing, and the only way in which we could repay them was to select two chief Petty Officers from their number, disrate them, and take them Poleward as ordinary seamen.

From South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

I disrate you on account of your unfitness for the post, and you will now return to your former rating, as I have restored your name to the list of the crew.

From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by Schonberg, J.

As they're not sailors, I mean to disrate them to boys at five dollars a month.

From The Grain Ship by Robertson, Morgan

It is obvious, too, that if giving a man a higher rating be a source of encouragement, to disrate him may readily be used as a means of punishment.

From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil

For cause, he disrated his chief officers: and so asserted in that desolate place, as fearlessly as he would have asserted it in an English harbor, that aboard his ship his will was law.

From Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)

I could not be disrated, as I was only a cabin-boy, but a substitutionary penalty was invoked against me.

From Windjammers and Sea Tramps by Runciman, Walter

I said; "you are no longer captain of the foretop, you are disrated on the ship's books."

From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil

I then turned to the clerk to see the entry properly made; but on looking again at the disrated seaman, I observed, to my astonishment, that he was in tears!

From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil

In the evening General Longstreet told me that he had just received intelligence that Hooker had been disrated, and that Meade256 was appointed in his place.

From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon

We believe you to be a clever first mate, otherwise Captain Kendall would not have dug you up out of the forecastle; and believing this, naturally we dislike the thought of disrating you.

From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

The disrating had been largely due to the second officer, who did not hesitate to ask the fellow in what capacity he saw him now.

From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.

It was worse than tyranny, I thought, this arbitrary conduct in disrating me unjustly!

From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by Overend, William Heysham

I don't mean he'd think of disrating you, Cap'n Sears.

From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby