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noun

Demise n.

1.

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.

2.

The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person. "After the demise of the Queen (of George II.), in 1737, they (drawing- rooms) were held but twice a week."

3.

(Law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. Note: The demise of the crown is a transfer of the crown, royal authority, or kingdom, to a successor. Thus, when Edward IV. was driven from his throne for a few months by the house of Lancaster, this temporary transfer of his dignity was called a demise. Thus the natural death of a king or queen came to be denominated a demise, as by that event the crown is transferred to a successor.

Demise and redemise, a conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it.

Synonyms: Death; decease; departure. See Death.

verb

Demise v. t. (past & past part. demised; pres. part. demising)

1.

To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath. "Power to demise my lands." "What honor Canst thou demise to any child of mine?"

2.

To convey; to give. (R.) "His soul is at his conception demised to him."

3.

(Law) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.

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"Demise" Quotes from Famous Books

... pets, Tommy was prime favourite. He represented the duchess's one concession to morbid sentiment. After the demise of the duke she had found it so depressing to be invariably addressed with suave deference by every male voice she heard. If the butler could have snorted, or the rector have rapped out an uncomplimentary adjective, the duchess would have felt cheered. As it was, a fixed and settled melancholy ...

— The Rosary • Florence L. Barclay

... this sympathetic record of his goodly span something of the charm of the modest nature of this man? Again, there was the recent intelligence concerning William Jackson, "a coloured gentleman employed as a deck hand on a pleasure craft in this harbour," who "met his demise" in an untimely manner. Clothes do not make the man, nor doth occupation decree the bearing. This is a great and fundamental truth very clearly grasped by the country obituary, and much ...

— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday

... the first things we heard, on reaching Prairie du Chien, was the death of ex-President Monroe, which happened on the 4th of July, at the City of New York. The demise of three ex-Presidents of the revolutionary era (Jefferson, Adams, and Monroe), on this political jubilee of the republic, is certainly extraordinary, and appears, so far as human judgment goes, to lend a providential sanction to the ...

— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... the homing hour is here, The task is done. Toilers, and they who course the deer Turn, one by one, At day's demise, Where dwells a deathless glow In loving eyes. I hear them hearthward go To castle, or to cottage on the lea; But him I love comes ...

— Kansas Women in Literature • Nettie Garmer Barker

... and overwrought mortals, he was often moody, depressed, and, worst of all, a victim to premonitions of his early demise. His superstitious temperament was constantly worrying him, as did his faith in the predictions of a gipsy fortune-teller who had correctly described his career up to the year 1805, and then stopping had said, "I can see no further." This creepy ending of the gipsy's tale was afflicting ...

— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman

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