*demi*

n. A member of an academy, university, or college. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. academicus: cf. F. académigue. See Academy. ] 1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. “Academic courses.” Warburton. “Academical study.” Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an academical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. académicien. See Academy. ] 1. A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collegian. [ R. ] Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the position or state of being a member of an honorary academy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [ Obs. ] Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. academiste. ] 1. An Academic philosopher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An academician. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Demy, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. demi-, fr. L. dimidius half; di- = dis- + medius middle. See Medium, and cf. Demy, Dimidiate. ] A prefix, signifying half. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. demi- bastion. ] (Fort.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. demi- brigade. ] A half brigade. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Mus.) An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil. Antiq.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. demi-cercle. ] An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil. Antiq.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. To deify in part. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A half devil. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female demigod. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. demi- gorge. ] (Fort.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. demigrare, demigratum, to emigrate. See De-, and Migrate. ] To emigrate. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ L. demigratio. ] Emigration. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A half groat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Peninsula. [ Obs. ] Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. dame-jeanne, i.e., Lady Jane, a corruption of Ar. damajāna, damjāna, prob. fr. Damaghan a town in the Persian province of Khorassan, once famous for its glass works. ] A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. demi- lune. ] 1. (Fort.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Each crescent is made of polyhedral cells which under some circumstances are supposed to give rise to new salivary cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A half man. [ R. ] Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; demi + monde world, L. mundus. ] Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps. [ 1913 Webster ]

Literary demimonde, writers of the lowest kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having half the nature of another. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver. [ R. ]

{ } n. Half relief. See Demi-rilievo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Contr. fr. demi-reputation. ] A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. [ Colloq. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pref. demi- + It. rilievo. ] (Fine Arts) (a) Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness. (b) A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The state of being demisable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Demise. ] (Law) Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. démettre, p. p. démis, démise, to put away, lay down; pref. dé- (L. de or dis-) + mettre to put, place, lay, fr. L. mittere to send. See Mission, and cf. Dismiss, Demit. ] 1. Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person. [ 1913 Webster ]

After the demise of the Queen [ of George II. ], in 1737, they [ drawing- rooms ] were held but twice a week. P. Cunningham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The demise of the crown is a transfer of the crown, royal authority, or kingdom, to a successor. Thus, when Edward IV. was driven from his throne for a few months by the house of Lancaster, this temporary transfer of his dignity was called a demise. Thus the natural death of a king or queen came to be denominated a demise, as by that event the crown is transferred to a successor. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Demise and redemise, a conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it.

Syn. -- Death; decease; departure. See Death. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Demised p. pr. & vb. n. Demising. ] 1. To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath. “Power to demise my lands.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

What honor
Canst thou demise to any child of mine? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To convey; to give. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His soul is at his conception demised to him. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. demissus, p. p. of demittere. ] Cast down; humble; submissive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He down descended like a most demiss
And abject thrall. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. demissio, fr. demittere. See Demit. ] 1. The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. “Demission of mind.” Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resignation of an office. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tending to lower, depress, or degrade. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Demiss. ] Downcast; submissive; humble. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a humble manner. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]