demephitize (demefitiz)

t.; pret. and demephitized, ppr. demephitizingo de priv. mephitis, foul air, To purify from foul or unwholesome air. demerget (de-merj'), v. t. [OF. demergier, I found the receiver separated from its cover, and the air breaking forth through the water in which it was de merged. Boyle, Works, IV. 519. demerit1t (dē-mer'it), v. [ measne, prop. demain, demean, ion, domain: see demain and domain. The corrupt spelling demesne (cf. OF. demesne, demeisne, corrupt spellings of demaine, demeine, adj., of a domain) has been preserved through legal conservatism.] 1t. Power; dominion; po e ion. See demain . IMG:content-2327.png:[blocks in formation] among his tenants, originally called bookland or charter-land, and folk-land or estates held in villeinage, from which sprang copyhold estates. Copyhold estates, however, have been accounted demesnes, because the tenants are judged to have their estates only at the will of the lord. The defects in those acts... have hitherto been wholly ineffectual, except about the demesnes of a few gentlemen. Swift . 3. Any estate in land. A gentleman of noble parentage, Of fair demesnes , youthful, and nobly train'd. Shak., R. and J., iii. 5. My father's dead; I am a man of war too, Moneys, demesnes; I have ships at sea too, captains. Fletcher, Rule a Wife, i. 5. .. The demesnes of John, Lord of Biscay, amounted to more than eighty towns and castles. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., Int. Ancient demesne, collectively, the manors that, according to the Doomsday book, were actually in the hands of the crown at the time of Edward the Confe or or William the Conqueror, though they may have been subsequently granted to tenants. - Demesne lands, lands which the lord has not let out in tenancy, but has reserved for his own use and occupation. The demesne lands of the crown... were abundantly sufficient to support its dignity and magnificence. Hallam, Middle Ages, viii. 2. In his demesne as of fee. See demain . demesnial (de-me'ni-al), a . [ demesne + -ial .] Pertaining to a demesne. [Rare.] Demeter (de-meter), n. [L., γῆ , = Doric dã , earth, + μήτηρ = E. mother ; but the identification of da , which is found independently only in a few exclamatory phrases, with γῆ , earth, is very doubtful.] In anc. Gr. myth ., the godde of vegetation and of useful IMG:content-2328.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][merged small] fruits, protectre of social order and of marriage; one of the great Olympian deities. She is usually a ociated, and even confounded, in legend and in cult, with her daughter Perse phone (Proser pine) or Kostpwhose rape by Hades (Pluto) symbolizes some of the profound phases of Hellenic mysticism. The Romans of the end of the republic and of the empire a imilated to the Hellenic conception of Demeter the primitive Italic chthonian divinity Ceres.