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Relegate
ˈrɛlɪɡeɪt/

verb

To assign to a lower position or to classify something.
Assign an inferior rank or position to.

"It won't go down as a season to be remembered in Workington Town's history books as 2016 saw the club relegated to League One"

Synonyms: downgrade, lower, lower in rank/status, put down, move down; consign, banish, exile; demote, degrade, declass, strip someone of their rank, reduce to the ranks, disrate, drum out; bust

BRITISH
transfer (a sports team) to a lower division of a league.
"United were relegated to division two"

"Sainsbury's and M&S relegate 'Easter' from chocolate eggs."

He ordained that his disciples should speak well and think reverently of the Gods, muses and heroes, and likewise of parents and benefactors; that they should obey the laws; that they should not relegate the worship of the Gods to a secondary position, performing it eagerly, even at home; that to the celestial divinities they should sacrifice uncommon offerings; and ordinary ones to the inferior deities. (The world he Divided

Mercurial

Mercurial means quick and changeable in temperament; volatile

məːˈkjʊərɪəl

adjective
1. Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
"his mercurial temperament"

Synonyms
volatile, capricious, temperamental, excitable, fickle, changeable, unpredictable, variable, protean, mutable, erratic, quicksilver, inconstant, inconsistent, unstable, unsteady, fluctuating, ever-changing, kaleidoscopic, fluid, wavering, vacillating, moody, flighty, wayward, whimsical, giddy, impulsive; technicallabile
"a mercurial temperament"

2. Of or containing the element mercury.
"gels containing organic mercurial compounds"

noun
1. A drug or other compound containing mercury.
"for twenty years organic mercurials were the most potent diuretics in clinical use"

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