Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-MARCH', n. [Fr. demarche.]

March; walk; gait. [Obs.]

DE-MARK-A'TION, [Sp. demarcacion, from demarcar; de and marcar, to mark; marca, a mark; Port. demarcar. See Mark.]

1. The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit.
2. A limit or bound ascertained and fixed; line of separation marked or determined. The speculative line of demarkation, where obedience ought to end and resistance begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke.

DE-MEAN', n.

1. Behavior; carriage; demeanor. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Mien. [Obs.] Ibm.

DE-MEAN', v.t.¹ [Fr. demener; Norm. demesner, demener, to lead, to manage, to govern, to stir; It. menare; Sp. menear.]

1. To behave; to carry; to conduct; with the reciprocal pronoun; as, it is our duty to demean ourselves with humility.
2. To treat. Spenser.

DE-MEAN', v.t.² [de and mean.]

To debase; to undervalue. [Not used.] Shak.

DE-MEAN'ED, pp.

Behaved well: in a good sense. Lessened; debased: in a bad sense.

DE-MEAN'ING, ppr.

Behaving; also, debasing one's self.

DE-MEAN'OR, n.

Behavior; carriage; deportment; as, decent demeanor; sad demeanor. Milton.

DE-MEAN'URE, n.

Behavior. [Not in use.]

DE-MEDIETATE, a. [L.]

A jury de medietate is one composed of half natives and half foreigners – used in actions in which a foreigner is a party, or half of common jurors and half of men of the class to which one of the parties belongs. Blackstone.

DE'MEN-CY, n. [L. dementia.]

Madness. [Not in use.] Skelton.

DE-MEN'TATE, a.

Mad; infatuated. Hammond.

DE-MEN'TATE, v.t. [L. demento; de and mens.]

To make mad. Burton.

DE-MEN'TA-TED, pp.

Rendered mad.

DE-MEN-TA'TION, n.

The act of making frantic. Whitlock.

DE-MENT'ED, a.

Infatuated. Quart. Rev.

DE-MEPH-I-TI-ZA'TION, n. [See Demephitize.]

The act of purifying from mephitic or foul air. Med. Repository.

DE-MEPH'I-TIZE, v.t. [de and mephitis, foul air, or ill smell.]

To purify from foul unwholesome air.

DE-MEPH'I-TIZ-ED, pp.

Purified; freed from foul air.

DE-MEPH'I-TIZ-ING, ppr.

Purifying from foul air.

DE-MER'IT, n. [Fr. demerite; de and merite, merit, L. meritum, from mereo, to earn or deserve. The Latin demereo used in a good sense. See Merit.]

1. That which deserves punishment, the opposite of merit; an ill-deserving; that which is blamable or punishable in moral conduct; vice or crime. Mine is the merit, the demerit thine. Dryden.
2. Anciently, merit; desert; in a good sense. Shak.

DE-MER'IT, v.t.

To deserve blame or punishment. [I believe not in use.]

DE-MERS'ED, a. [L. demersus.]

Plunged; situated or growing under water.

DE-MER'SION, n. [L. demersio, from demergo, to plunge or drown.]

1. A plunging into a fluid; a drowning. Trans. of Pausanias.
2. The state of being overwhelmed in water or earth. Ray.
3. The putting of a medicine in a dissolving liquor. Dict.

DE-MES'MER-IZE, v.t. [From Mesmer.]

To excite or relieve from mesmeric influence. [See Mesmerize.]