DPage 127
- English Word Demise Definition Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
- English Word Demise Definition The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.
- English Word Demise Definition The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
- English Word Demise Definition To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
- English Word Demise Definition To convey; to give.
- English Word Demise Definition To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
- English Word Demised Definition of Demise
- English Word Demisemiquaver Definition A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.
- English Word Demising Definition of Demise
- English Word Demiss Definition Cast down; humble; submissive.
- English Word Demission Definition The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.
- English Word Demission Definition Resignation of an office.
- English Word Demissionary Definition Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed.
- English Word Demissionary Definition Tending to lower, depress, or degrade.
- English Word Demissive Definition Downcast; submissive; humble.
- English Word Demissly Definition In a humble manner.
- English Word Demisuit Definition A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
- English Word Demit Definition To let fall; to depress.
- English Word Demit Definition To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties.
- English Word Demit Definition To lay down, as an office; to resign.