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The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society

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The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.

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Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.

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A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.

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A deleterious change in the chemical structure, physical properties or appearance of a material from natural or artificial exposure.

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The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.

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Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.

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The gradual breakdown of components of a material, as a result of a natural element, i.e.: heat, cold and wind.

Similarly William of Paris held that degradation deprived a priest of power to consecrate.

Being sent to prison was the final degradation.

After losing his fortune, he became homeless and lived a life of degradation.

The icicles are prison bars on our windows, trapping us, prisoners to this life of sin and degradation...

At the same time he raised his country from ruin and degradation into a prosperous and powerful monarchy.

After this, of course, his degradation was impossible, and seven years later he was made a peer of France, not for political reasons, but as a representative of French science.

The wholesale seizure and degradation of Church property outraged them, and they formally protested against the introduction of " Luthery."

To sink in five years from the position of the champion of Protestantism to that of the common enemy of every Protestant power was a degradation not to be compensated by any amount of military glory.

The fifth is a social picture of the degradation to which poor guests were exposed at the banquets of the rich, but many of the epigrams of Martial and the more sober evidence of one of Pliny's letters show that the picture painted by Juvenal, though perhaps exaggerated in colouring, was drawn from a state of society prevalent during and immediately subsequent to the times of Domitian.

There is no evidence that these two great writers, who lived and wrote at the same time, who were animated by the same hatred of the tyrant under whom the best years of their manhood were spent, and who both felt most deeply the degradation of their times, were even known to one another.

A mockery of popular institutions, under the name of a burgher council, indeed existed; but this was a mere delusion, and must not be confounded with the system of local government by means of district burgher councils which that most able man, Commissioner de Mist, sought to establish during the brief government of the Batavian Republic from 1803 to 1806, when the Dutch nation, convinced and ashamed of the false policy by which they had permitted a mere money-making association to disgrace the Batavian name, and to entail degradation on what might have been a free and prosperous colony, sought to redeem their error by making this country a national colonial possession, instead of a slavish property, to be neglected, oppressed or ruined, as the caprice or avarice of its merchant owners might dictate.

The author takes a genuine prophecy, undoubtedly intended by Jeremiah to refer simply to the duration of the Babylonian captivity, and, by means of a purely arbitrary and mystical interpretation, makes it denote the entire period of Israel's degradation down to his own time.

The Phanariote period has been described as one of total decay; the political degradation of Rumania was thought to be reflected in its spiritual life.

S' p effort, he was spurred on by Marie Antoinette, who keenly felt her own degradation and the curtailment of that royal prerogative which her son would one day inherit.

To put down the Lollards, he called a meeting of the clergy, pressed on the statute de haeretico comburendo, and passed sentence of degradation upon William Sawtrey.

This, however, only served to show in a very remarkable manner the courage and faith of the Christian Malagasy, of whom about two hundred suffered death in various cruel forms, while many hundreds were punished more or less severely by fine, degradation, imprisonment and slavery.

There is thus traced a degradation, as it is called, from a flower with three stamens and three divisions of the calyx, to one with a single bract and a single stamen.

The icicles are prison bars on our windows, trapping us, prisoners to this life of sin and degradation, giving miners a few minutes of pleasure for the pittance of coins it takes them weeks to earn in the bowels of the earth, performing unspeakable labors for the wealth of others.

Bromadiolone is readily adsorbed on soil, rich in clay and organic compounds, with no leaching; degradation in soil is significant.

Increased affluence from tourism has also resulted in greater ecological degradation.

Glucosamine inhibits recombinant human interleukin-1 stimulated cartilage degradation in equine cartilage explants.

The thin-layer chromatography indicated a series of degradation products.

It promotes cellular uptake of glucose and amino acids and inhibits protein degradation (11 ).

Two contrasting methods for accelerating environmental degradation have been identified.

Due to the volatile nature of all types of video and film the environmental storage conditions must be strictly controlled to minimize degradation.

With look ahead map based support some graceful degradation could be provided.

Perhaps the classic example here is global environmental degradation.

Virtually all of the phytic acid was removed (using enzymatic degradation) from the experimental formula.

In this case, we create enzymes whose activity should result in the proteolytic degradation of one target protein only.

This complexity has thus far proven as resistant to detailed chemical characterization as it is to microbial degradation.

These ions are harmful to organic substrates, such as paper, because they catalyze the oxidative degradation of cellulose and other organic materials.

The net contribution of dryland degradation to global warming is difficult to quantify at this time.

This study presents a proof of concept for monitoring scaffold degradation on-line within a culture environment.

The primary PA involved in intravascular fibrin degradation is tPA.

In advanced OA however, cartilage degradation associated with high IL-1 levels far outstrips any attempts at repair by these growth factors.

The solution to soil degradation was mixed farming moving away from highly intensive arable.

This forest dieback or degradation could potentially contribute 10 to 100 Gt C to the atmosphere in the coming century.

But things look decidedly downbeat if you are a signal engineer with a mission to put right the degradation.

Research has involved optimization of conditions for degradation and studies of the biochemical mechanisms by which complex azo dyes are degraded.

No degradation of telescope IR emissivity, which is a crucial advantage for a system with strong science drivers in the infrared.

Finally, we previously reported a role for A-SAA in matrix degradation through the production of metalloproteinases from RA synovial fibroblasts in vitro.

These degradation processes produce gaseous and particulate pollutants into the indoor air.

Finally, because of Attribut's relatively rapid soil degradation, there are no restrictions on crops in the following year.

European slavers dispersed them across the Americas to lead lives of degradation and brutality, without thought for their personal lives.

Living as one of the poor, London witnessed the squalor, degradation and slow starvation of the area.

The rate of degradation can be seen to increase at elevated temperatures.

Baxter, Sanctuary and Sacrifice (2895)' it existed in the post-exilic age was really the work of Moses, it is inexplicable that all trace of it was so completely lost that the degradation of the non-Zadokites in Ezekiel was a new feature and a punishment, whereas in the Mosaic law the ordinary Levites, on the traditional view, was already forbidden priestly rights under penalty of death.

Branding (perhaps the equivalent of degradation to slavery) was the penalty for slander of a married woman or vestal.

Attention must also be called to the treatise Ad Donatum, (De gratia dei), in which the new life after regeneration with its moral effects is set forth in a pure and clear light, as contrasted with the night of heathendom and its moral degradation, which were known to the author from personal experience.

The Letters of C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus or Pliny the Younger (61-c. 115), though they do not contradict the representation of Tacitus and Juvenal regarded as an exposure of the political degradation and moral corruption of prominent individuals and classes, do much to modify the pervadingly tragic and sombre character of their representation.