DEMEAN

v. n.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To manage; to conduct; to treat. [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton.

2.
v.

To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death. Shak. They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon.

3.
v.

To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. Thackeray.

4.
n.

Management; treatment. [Obs.] Vile demean and usage bad. Spenser.

5.
n.

Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. [Obs.] With grave demean and solemn vanity. West.

6.
n.

Demesne. [Obs.]

7.
n.

Resources; means. [Obs.] You know How narrow our demeans are. Massinger.

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