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  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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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