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Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a commissure.

A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.

nt of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement. But basely yielded upon compromise That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows. Shak. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Burke. An abhorrence of concession a…

One who compromises.

Relating to compromise. [R.] Chalmers.

h of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.

One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.

The state of being demisable.

Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate.

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.

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

Cast down; humble; submissive. [Obs.] He down descended like a most demiss And abject thrall. Spenser.

t of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange.

Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed.

Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.] They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630).

In a humble manner. [Obs.]

A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

One in subjection to a demon, or to demons. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.