Hypertext Webster Gateway: "demit"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Demit \De*mit"\, n.
The act of demitting; also, a letter, certificate, or the
like, certifying that a person has (honorably) demitted, as
from a Masonic lodge.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Demit \De*mit"\, v. i. [F. d['e]mettre to remove, se d['e]mettre
to resign; d['e]- (L. dis-) + mettre to put, fr. L. mittere
to send. Cf. {Dismiss}.]
To lay down or relinquish an office, membership, authority,
or the like; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge; -- generally
used with an implication that the act is voluntary.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Demit \De*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Demitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Demitting}.] [L. demittere to send or bring down, to lower;
de- + mittere to send. Cf. {Demise}.]
1. To let fall; to depress. [R.]
They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [i. e.,
their train]. --Sir T.
Browne.
2. To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit
one's self to humble duties. [R.]
3. To lay down, as an office; to resign. [Scot.]
General Conway demitted his office. --Hume.
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