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Demean
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- 1 Management; treatment. obsolete, transitive, uncountable, usually
"Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad"
- 2 demesne. transitive
- 3 Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. obsolete, transitive, uncountable, usually
"‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’"
- 4 resources; means. transitive
- 1 To debase; to lower; to degrade. transitive
"It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter."
- 2 To manage; to conduct; to treat. obsolete, transitive
"But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter."
- 3 To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set). transitive
"Concerning FE estimation, it makes no difference whether you demean the data with unit-specific means computed on (balanced) T observations per unit, or with unit-specific means computed on (unbalanced) Tᵢ observations per unit."
- 4 reduce in worth or character, usually verbally wordnet
- 5 To humble; to humiliate. transitive
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- 6 To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun. archaic, transitive
"they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death."
- 7 To mortify. transitive
Etymology
(1595) From de- + mean (“lowly, base, common”), from Middle English mene, aphetic variation of imene (“mean, base, common”), from Old English ġemǣne (“mean, common”). Compare English bemean.
From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin mināre, from minārī (“to threaten”).
From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin mināre, from minārī (“to threaten”).
Variant of demesne.
de- + mean
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