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Definition of Relegates
1. relegate [v] - See also: relegate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Relegates
Literary usage of Relegates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard (1895)
"ENGLAND relegates her Poets to a "Corner." The earth and the fulness thereof
belongs to the men who can kill; on this rock have her State and Church been ..."
2. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"The traditional view of the Christian revelation is that it relegates the just
apportionment of happiness and misery to a future life, of whose existence we ..."
3. Notae Latinae: An Account of Abbreviation in Latin Mss. of the Early by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1915)
"F 13 and F 17 (by second scribe, but qd by first scribe) and F 19 (qd usual) and
F 61 (the scribe relegates qd to the designation of 'quid'); Of Murbach, ..."
4. Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives by United States Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture (1922)
"... and if he has to leave it stand, that action relegates that tree to cold
storage for some years; it relegates it to the assessor for some years, ..."
5. The Progress of Philosophy in the Past and in the Future by Samuel Tyler (1868)
"But yet, as speculation cannot, according to Kant, either affirm or deny the
existence of a supreme being, it relegates the question to empirical proofs ..."
6. Questions on the Philosophy of Art by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1897)
"Should they not then be included in a portrait-bust ? Would they add to the
symbolism of a bust of Athena ? What relegates Sculpture ..."
7. Questions on the Philosophy of Art by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1897)
"Should they not then be included in a portrait-bust ? Would they add to the
symbolism of a bust of Athena ? What relegates Sculpture to the side of Nobility ..."
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