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Webster 1913 Edition


Demigrate

Dem′i-grate

,
Verb.
I.
[L.
demigrare
,
demigratum
, to emigrate. See
De
-, and
Migrate
.]
To emigrate.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.

Webster 1828 Edition


Demigrate

DEMIGRATE

or DEMIGRATION, [Not used. See Migrate.]

Definition 2024


demigrate

demigrate

English

Verb

demigrate (third-person singular simple present demigrates, present participle demigrating, simple past and past participle demigrated)

  1. (obsolete) To emigrate.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cockeram to this entry?)

Etymology 2

de- + migrate

Verb

demigrate (third-person singular simple present demigrates, present participle demigrating, simple past and past participle demigrated)

  1. To cancel or return from migration (of e.g. a computer system).
    • 2002, Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades (page 196)
      The reason is that it is more cost effective to debug and troubleshoot the new environment than to demigrate and lose all the data transactions completed under the new technology.

Latin

Verb

dēmīgrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēmīgrō