uncredit

English

Etymology

un- +‎ credit

Verb

uncredit (third-person singular simple present uncredits, present participle uncrediting, simple past and past participle uncredited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
      Then was it Kilvert's design to uncredit the testimony of Pregion
  2. To deduct the amount of payment that was previously credited to an account.
    • 1972, Harold Glenn Moulton, ‎Constantine Edward McGuire, Germany's Capacity to Pay: A Study of the Reparation Problem:
      But, unfortunately, if the promises to pay are not fulfilled, the Reparation Commission will later have to uncredit Germany's account.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “uncredit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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