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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 Basil Hall

“I appreciate your feeling, my lad,” he answered; “but even if he does return I won’t disrate you, and I will see how we can best manage to get you an outfit.”

From Won from the Waves by John B. Greene

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 J. Schonberg

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 Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

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

From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson

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 Walter Runciman

I did not know the longitude; but I did know that we had sailed due east since I was disrated, and that then we were on the forty-seventh parallel.

From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson

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 Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

For if any of these are found wanting, they are forthwith disrated or discharged.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

In a short, time the mate, who was so weak that he was scarcely able to stand alone, was summoned before the captain, who gave him a severe reprimand, and disrated him.

From Frank on a Gun-Boat by Harry Castlemon

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 Ernest W. Hornung

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 William Heysham Overend

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 Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

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

From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln