dehonestate

First attested in 1663; borrowed from Latin dēhonestātus, perfect passive participle of dēhonestō (“to dishonour”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

dehonestate (third-person singular simple present dehonestates, present participle dehonestating, simple past and past participle dehonestated)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To disparage.
   • 1825, Charles Lamb, “Unitarian Protests”, in London Magazine:

     dehonestate the intellects of married women

• “dehonestate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

dehonestāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dehonestō