uncardinal
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]uncardinal (third-person singular simple present uncardinals, present participle uncardinaling or uncardinalling, simple past and past participle uncardinaled or uncardinalled)
- (rare) To remove from the cardinalship; to remove from the position of cardinal.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
- he quickly got a dispensation to uncardinal himself
References
[edit]- “uncardinal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.