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[Eng. demand ( e ) r; -e .] 1. Ord. Lang.: A female demander or claimer. 2. Law: A female demandant. *dě-māne, *de-maine, v . t . [DEMEAN.] To treat (generally in a bad sense); to maltreat. "Sall I the se deman it on sic wyse?" Douglas: Virgil, 294, 1. de-mar-cāte, v . t . [Formed from demarcation (q. v.).] 1. Lit .: To mark or fix the limits of; to bound. each of whom holds his own separately demar IMG:content-2107.png:[blocks in formation] II. Fig .: A bound, a limit, a line of separation or distinction. "We can see why it is that no line of demarcation can be drawn between species."-Darwin: Origin of Species (1859), ch. xiv., p. 469.