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slur
English
Etymology
From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Noun
slur (plural slurs)
- An insult or slight.
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- Coordinate term: tie
- (obsolete) A trick or deception.
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Derived terms
- f-slur
Translations
Verb
slur (third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)
- To insult or slight.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- And how men slur him, saying all his force
Is melted into mere effeminacy?
- And how men slur him, saying all his force
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cudworth to this entry?)
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- to slur men of what they fought for
- 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Derived terms
- slur over
Translations
Further reading
- Slur (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- URLs, lurs
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derogate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from (the participle stem of) Latin d?rog?re (“to annul, repeal part of a law, take away, detract from”), from de- (“from”) + rog?re (“to propose a law, ask”). Compare abrogate, arrogate, interrogate.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d????e?t/
Verb
derogate (third-person singular simple present derogates, present participle derogating, simple past and past participle derogated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To partially repeal (a law etc.). [16th-17th c.]
- 1713, Matthew Hale, A History and Analysis of the Common Law of England
- By several contrary customs, […] many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated.
- 1713, Matthew Hale, A History and Analysis of the Common Law of England
- (transitive) To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle. [from 16th c.]
- 1642, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus:
- I never thought the human frailty of erring in cases of religion, infamy to a state, no more than to a council: it had therefore been neither civil nor christianly, to derogate the honour of the state for that cause [...].
- 1999, Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition, p. 222:
- When the need for self-affirmation is satisfied through other means, one is less compelled to derogate members of negatively stereotyped groups.
- 2001, Russell Cropanzano, Justice in the Workplace, vol. II, p. 104:
- Bandura (1990) gave a related example of gas chamber operators in Nazi prison camps, who found it necessary to derogate and dehumanize their victims rather than become overwhelmed by distress.
- 1642, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus:
- (transitive, intransitive) To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened. [from 16th c.]
- 1532, Thomas More, The Supper of the Lord
- Anything […] that should derogate, minish, or hurt his glory and his name.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity.
- 1532, Thomas More, The Supper of the Lord
- (intransitive) To remove a part, to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.). [from 16th c.]
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 147 ?ISBN
- In doing so she had derogated from her dignity and committed herself.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19:
- God does not have the attributes of a Christian Providence, for it would derogate from His perfection to think about anything except what is perfect, i.e. Himself.
- 1967, "The undoing of Dodd", Time, 5 Dec 1967:
- The six-member Committee on Standards and Conduct unanimously recommended that the Senate censure the Connecticut Democrat for behavior that is "contrary to good morals, derogates from the public trust expected of a Senator, and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 147 ?ISBN
- (intransitive) To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself. [from 17th c.]
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, II.1:
- CLOTEN. Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in't?
- SECOND LORD. You cannot derogate, my lord.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, II.1:
Usage notes
The verb is relatively uncommon, but the related adjective derogatory is common.
Synonyms
- decry
- (to disparage, belittle): vilify
- (to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.)): abase
Antonyms
- (to disparage, belittle): praise
- (to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.)): exalt
Related terms
- abrogate
- arrogate
- interrogate
- prorogue
- surrogate
Translations
Adjective
derogate (comparative more derogate, superlative most derogate)
- (archaic) debased
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear I.iv
- Dry up in her the organs of increase, / And from her derogate body never spring / A babe to honour her.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear I.iv
Related terms
- derogatory
- derogation
- derogative
Anagrams
- dogeater, erogated
Italian
Verb
derogate
- inflection of derogare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
Verb
d?rog?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of d?rog?
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