Dictionary: DE-MENT'ED – DEM'I-GRATE

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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.]

DE-MESNE', n. [See DEMAIN.]

DEM'I, a.

A prefix, Fr. demi, from the L. dimidium, signifies half. It is used only in composition.

DEM'I-BRI-GADE, n.

A half-brigade.

DEM'I-CA-DENCE, n.

In music, an imperfect cadence, or one that falls on any other than the key note. – Busby.

DEM'I-CAN-NON, n.

A cannon of different sizes; the lowest carries a ball of thirty pounds weight, and six inches diameter; the ordinary is twelve feet long, and carries a shot of six inches and one-sixth diameter, and thirty-two pounds weight; that of the greatest size is twelve feet long, and carries a ball of six inches and five-eighths diameter, and thirty-six pounds weight. – Dict.

DEM'I-CROSS, n.

An instrument for taking the altitude of the sun and stars.

DEM'I-CUL-VER-IN, n.

A large gun, or piece of ordnance; the least is ten feet long, and carries a ball of nine pounds weight and four inches diameter; that of ordinary size carries a ball of four inches and two-eighths diameter, and ten pounds eleven ounces in weight; the largest size is ten feet and a third in length, and carries a ball four inches and a half in diameter, and of twelve pounds eleven ounces in weight. – Johnson. Encyc.

DEM-I-DE'I-FY, v.t.

To deify in part. – Cowper.

DEM'I-DEV-IL, n.

Half a devil. – Shak.

DEM'I-DIS-TANCE, n.

In fortification, the distance between the outward polygons and the flank.

DEM'I-DI-TONE, n.

In music, a minor third. – Busby.

DEM'I-GOD, n.

Half a god; one partaking of the divine nature; a fabulous hero, produced by the cohabitation of a deity with a mortal. – Milton. Pope.

DEM'I-GOD-DESS, n.

A female demi-god. – Campbell.

DEM'I-GORGE, n.

In fortification, that part of the polygon which remains after the flank is raised, and goes from the curtain to the angle of the polygon. It is half of the vacant space or entrance into a bastion. – Encyc.

DEM'I-GRATE, v.i. [L. demigro.]

To migrate – which see.