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The act of defining; definition; description. [Obs.] Shak.

A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.

Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. [R.] Milton.

A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township. Jowett (Thucyd).

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

Demeanor. [Obs.] Skelton.

Management; treatment; conduct. [Obs.] God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton.

Behavior. [Obs.] Spenser.

Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.

Demented; dementate. [R.] J. H. Newman.

Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.

The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.

Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.

Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

To purify from mephitic. -- De*meph`i*ti*za"tion, n.

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.

which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. [Obs.] By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [they] acquired this reputation. Holland.

To immerse. [Obs.] Boyle.

Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.

The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.