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Relegated

Relegate \Rel"e*gate\ (r?l"?-g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relegated (-g?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Relegating.] [L. relegatus, p. p. of relegare; pref. re- re- + legare to send with a commission or charge. See Legate.] To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

It [the Latin language] was relegated into the study of the scholar.
--Milman.

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relegated

vb. (en-past of: relegate)

Usage examples of "relegated".

When you have mystic powers from the astral plane, I suppose auto-ambulatory locomotion is relegated to the peasants.

Who thinks I'm a flying emotional time bomb who should be relegated to controlling traffic on a Central Worlds ground station?

Wouldn't this task be easily relegated to a junior Ro-sayo, or a guard?

He was relegated to the sidelines which he tried to take philosophically.

His father relegated him to the back row of the chorus, where Robinton was quite happy to be.

He snapped backward suddenly and was gone in a puff of smoke, the flames that had sustained his form relegated back to their brazier to await his return.

Unlike the northern cities, where nighttime activities were usually relegated to the many taverns, the bustle of Calimport's streets only increased after the sun went down.

While they lived under Matron Baenre's rule, their children would not even be considered nobles but would be relegated to the ranks of the commoners.

There, everyone was an assassin, and Entreri, despite his tremendous talents at the murderous art, was only human, a fact that relegated him to the bottom of the social ladder.

A few isolated districts and outlying struc­tures relegated to side caverns survived the fire.

At that time there was so much activity in the town and so much bustle in the house that the care of the children was relegated to a secondary level.

The rigor of the mourning for Remedios had been relegated to the back­ground by the mortifications of the war, Aureliano’s absence, Arcadio’s brutality, and the expulsion of José Arcadio and Rebeca.

The war, relegated to the attic of bad memories, was momentarily recalled with the popping of champagne bottles.

As long as Úrsula had full use of her faculties some of the old customs survived and the life of the family kept some quality of her impulsiveness, but when she lost her sight and the weight of her years relegated her to a corner, the circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she determined the destiny of the family.

With Úrsula relegated to the shadows and with Amaranta absorbed In the work of her winding cloth, the former apprentice queen had the freedom to choose the guests and impose on them the rigid norms that her parents had taught her.