Behavior.
Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.
Demented; dementate.
To deprive of reason; to dement.
The act of depriving of reason; madness.
Insane; mad; of unsound mind.
mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.
Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
To purify from mephitic or foul air.
To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
To deserve praise or blame.
To immerse.
Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.
The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize.
A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne.
See Demy, n.
Peninsula.
Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness. A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.
A small cup for, or of, black coffee.
A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
A half brigade.
An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.
A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.
To deify in part.
A half devil.
A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
A female demigod.
Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
To emigrate.
Emigration.
A half groat.
A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.
A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance.
A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.
A half man.
Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.
Having half the nature of another.
A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver.
Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.
A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
The state of being demisable.
Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate.
To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
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.
The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.
Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed.
Downcast; submissive; humble.
In a humble manner.
A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
The act of demitting; also, a letter, certificate, or the like, certifying that a person has (honorably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.
That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light. The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.
Semitone.
The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.
Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.
A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges.
A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.
A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.
To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.
the type genus of the Dermochelyidae, consisting of leatherback turtles.
Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people.
Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
Democratic.
In a democratic manner.
The principles or spirit of a democracy.
A democrat.
To render democratic.
Democracy.
An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.
A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon.
of or pertaining to demography; as, demographic surveys.
The study of vital statistics, such as births, deaths, marriages, mortality, health, etc., in populations and subgroups of populations.
A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid.
To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns.
Demolition.
The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.
A demolisher.
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
A female demon.
same as demonetization.
The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized; the declaration by a government that something (e.g. gold or silver) is no longer the legal tender of a country; as, the demonetization of gold.
To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.
A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices.
In a demoniacal manner.
The state of being demoniac, or the practices of demoniacs.
Of or pertaining to a demon.
Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon.
The state of being possessed by a demon or by demons.
See Demonianism.
Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac.
The belief in demons or false gods.
A believer in, or worshiper of, demons.
To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.
The power or government of demons.
A demonologist.
The worship of demons.
One versed in demonology.
Of or pertaining to demonology.
One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.
A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations.
Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic.
A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.
One in subjection to a demon, or to demons.
The dominion of demons.
Demoniacal influence or possession.
The state of a demon.
The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.
Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.
The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.
In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.
Demonstration; proof.
To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.