disrated

Updated: June 5, 2025

For you" he laid a forefinger against the big rating badge on his coat sleeve "that I've been shipmates with for fifteen years off and on I reckon will be detached. But I've been disrated before and we'll let that pass.

James B. (James Brendan) Connolly - Wide Courses

The upshot was that poor Macan was put under arrest and confined in the cells that night; and when brought before the captain the next day for insubordination and drunkenness, as he had no excuse to offer he was disrated, losing his rank of corporal, with all its perquisites and privileges!

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Crown and Anchor: Under the Pen'ant

He, however, told the culprit's captain, whom he had just brought on shore in the barge, to give me the twenty shillings, and to charge it against him, and then to give him an airing at the mast-head till sunset; telling him, at the same time, he might feel himself very happy at not being disrated and turned before the mast.

Edward Howard - Rattlin the Reefer

The African army was, in the view of the majority of the senate, a forlorn hope of disrated companies and volunteers, the loss of whom in any event the state had no great occasion to regret.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

Buchanan's administration, in obedience to the demands of the slave-holding leaders and the all-conquering slave power, put down, disrated, from his committee. We saw seeds then sown that blossomed and bore bitter fruit at Charleston in 1860. Now we propose to try a similar experiment. I hope and trust in God that we shall not witness similar results.

James Gillespie Blaine - Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 : From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

"As you were present when I disrated Leigh on the ground mainly of your false statements as to his having assaulted you without any provocation on your part, which has now been proved to have been false it is only right that you should also be present at the restoration of the lad to his former post. Leigh!"

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - On Board the Esmeralda: Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story

But there are some men who never get up the tree but what they slip down again, and never can keep a straight course long together. Charles Iffley is of that sort. For something or other he did, he got disrated and dismissed the service; but he entered it again, and, from what I am told, I shouldn't be surprised but what, if his early history isn't known, he'll work his way up again.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor

Nothing like this can be even insinuated against the "forward officers" Boatswains, Gunners, etc.; nor against the petty officers Captains of the Tops, etc.; nor against the able seamen in the navy. For if any of these are found wanting, they are forthwith disrated or discharged.

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

Then Fullalove, who had stood by grinning, offered to make a bunkum rudder, provided the carpenter and mates were put under his orders. "But" said he, "I must bargain they shall be disrated if they attempt to reason." "That is no more than fair," said Dodd.

Charles Reade - Hard Cash

"Yes," says she, "I showed these two friends of mine when they first came, all the wonders of Silver-Store." He gave us a laughing look, and says he, "You are in luck, men. I would be disrated and go before the mast to-morrow, to be shown the way upward again by such a guide. You are in luck, men."

Charles Dickens - Perils of Certain English Prisoners