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[DEMEAN, v.] 1. Conduct, treatment, or management of a bus i infatuation. ne . 2. Behavior, carriage, demeanor. "All kind and courteous, and of sweet demeane." Lyly: Woman in the Moon, C 2. 3. Treatment. "Of all the vile demeane and usage bad." Spenser: F. Q., VI. vi. 18. *dě-mean' (2), s. [DEMESNE.] 1. The same as demesne (q. v.). 2. Property, resources. "You know how narrow our demeans are."- Mas singer, [Eng. demean; -ance.] De *dě-mean-ançe, s. mean or. ( Skelton.) dě-meaned, pa. par. or a. [DEMEAN, v.] de-mean-Ing, *de-mean-yng, pr. par., a. & s. [DEMEAN, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: Demeanor, behavior, conduct. dě-mean-or, *demeasnure, *demeanure, *demenure, s . [From demean , v. (q. v.)] *1. Conduct, treatment, or management of a bus ine . "God commits the managing so great a trust wholly to the demeanour of every grown man."- Milton . 2. Conduct, carriage, behavior, manners, deportment. "Both the demeanor of Mon mouth and that of Grey, during the journey, filled all observers with surprise."Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. v. de-me-di-e-tātē, phr . [Lat. of or in half.] English Law: A term applied to a jury consisting half of foreigners, impaneled to try a case in which an alien is indicted. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, "It is named by Pinel dementia or démence, demented. ne ."-Pritchard. dě-men-ti-a (ti as shi), s. [Lat.] 1. Ord. Lang. Idiotcy, infatuation; deprivation of reason or intellect. 2. Med.: Lo or feeblene of the mental faculties, from failing memory and confusion of thought ranging on to utter fatuity, with a vacant look, laugh, or smile. When the lo of faculties is induced by age, it is called senile dementia, of which feeblene is the chief symptom. †de-měph-it-i-zā-tion, s. [Eng demephitiz (e); -ation .] The act or proce of purifying from mephitis or foul air. †de-meph-It-ize, v . t . [Pref. de away, from, and Fr. méphitiser =to infect with foul air; méphit ique foul, unwholesome.] [MEPHITIS.] To purify from mephitis or unwholesome air. +de-meph-it-ized, pa . par or a. [DEMEPHIT IMG:content-2109.png:[blocks in formation] *1. ( Originally ): Merit, what one deserves; as demereo and mereo in Latin do not materially differ in signification. "My demerits May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune As this that I have reached." Shakesp.: Othello , i. 2. 2. ( Subsequently ): The opposite of merit. One can say that a person merits punishment, as well as reward; and after the two words merit and de merit had been for a long time synonymous, con venience led to their being used in opposite senses. merit being retained for conduct worthy of praise, and demerit for that obnoxious to censure. "Thou liv'st by me, to me thy breath resign; Mine is the merit, the demerit thine." Dryden.