v. [UN-2 6 c.] trans. a. To deprive of ecclesiastical dignity. ? Obs. b. To make undignified.
1702. De Foe, Reform. Manners, Pref. 1. All our Clergy are undignified and suspended at a Blow.
1768. Woman of Honor, I. 224. Selfishness, which not only undignifies them, but endangers their … interest.
1840. Milman, Hist. Chr., I. 185. His father’s humble station … had … still farther undignified the person of Jesus to the mind of his fellow-townsmen.
1867. Howells, Ital. Journ., iii. 33. Modern civilization has not crossed the castle moat, to undignify its exterior with any visible touch of the present.
