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Definition of Relegated
1. relegate [v] - See also: relegate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Relegated
Literary usage of Relegated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) (1882)
"Mr. Herbert Spencer's proposal that classics should be relegated to the leisure
part of education suggests two considerations—namely, whether the objections ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1888)
"The additional passages which in the last edition were relegated to an appendix
in vol. VI are restored to the position which most of them occupied in the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... was at one time thought to be allied to this Family, but is now, by almost
common consent, relegated to vhe neighbourhood of the Geese (A ..."
4. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"Those four years largely relegated to the realm of history past issues and brought
us face to face with what Democracy, its professions and its practices ..."
5. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"... le relegated for further information ; for up tt UK present time we have not
been abb' to identify om single sepulchral excavation al>out Jerusalem ..."
6. A History of England and the British Empire by Arthur Donald Innes (1915)
"The emperor, still retaining his title, was to be relegated to the island of Elba
off the coast of Italy, to be held by him as a toy principality. ..."
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