Meanings
demigrate1
present singular third person demigrates · participle present demigrating · participle past demigrated · past demigrated
- obsoleteTo emigrate.
I demigrate into one of these so well architected minsters
1653, W. Heath Robinson, The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais
demigrate2
present singular third person demigrates · participle present demigrating · participle past demigrated · past demigrated
- To cancel or return from migration (of e.g. a computer system).
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.
2002, Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades, page 196
Origin
demigrate · verb
- Latindēmīgrātus
- Englishdemigrate
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dēmīgrātus, perfect passive participle of dēmīgrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, de- + migrate.
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