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Second-rate

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen. UK, historical, not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of mediocre quality; not first-rate. idiomatic, not-comparable

    "‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles."

Adjective
  1. 1
    moderate to inferior in quality wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A second-rate ship of the line. UK, historical

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