To let fall; to depress. [R.] They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [i. e., their train]. Sir T. Browne.
To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties. [R.]
To lay down, as an office; to resign. [Scot.] General Conway demitted his office. Hume.
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