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De*mean"ance (?), n. Demeanor. [Obs.] Skelton.

De*mean"or (?), n. [Written also demeanour.] [For demeanure, fr. demean. See Demean, v. t.] 1. Management; treatment; conduct. [Obs.]

God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man.

Milton.

2. Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.

His demeanor was singularly pleasing.

Macaulay.

The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined demeanor.

Thackeray.

De*mean"ure (?), n. Behavior. [Obs.] Spenser.

De"men*cy (?), n. [L. dementia, fr. demens mad. See Dement.] Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.

De*ment" (?), v. t. [L. dementare, fr. demens, -mentis, out of one's mind, mad; de + mens mind. See Mental, and cf. Dementate.] To deprive of reason; to make mad. [R.] Bale.

De*ment", a. [L. demens, - mentis.] Demented; dementate. [R.] J. H. Newman.

De*men"tate (?), a. [L. dementatus, p. p. See Dement, v. t.] Deprived of reason.

Arise, thou dementate sinner!

Hammond.

De*men"tate (?) v. t. To deprive of reason; to dement. [R.] Burton.

De`men*ta"tion (?), n. The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.

De*ment"ed (?), a. [From Dement.] Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.

||De*men"ti*a (?), n. [L., fr. demens. See Dement.] Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

De*meph"i*tize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demephitized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Demephitizing.] [Cf. F. méphitiser to infect with mephitis.] To purify from mephitic or foul air. -- De*meph`i*ti*za"tion, n.

De*merge" (?), v. t. [L. demergere.] To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.]

The water in which it was demerged.

Boyle.

De*mer"it (?), n. [F. démérite demerit (in sense 2), OF. demerite demerit (in sense 1), fr. L. demerere to deserve well, LL., to deserve well or ill; de- + merere to deserve. See De-, and Merit.] 1. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. [Obs.]

By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, acquired this reputation.

Holland.

2. That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.