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Demit   Listen
verb
Demit  v. t.  (past & past part. demitted; pres. part. demitting)  
1.
To let fall; to depress. (R.) "They (peacocks) demit and let fall the same (i. e., their train)."
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."






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"Demit" Quotes from Famous Books



... openly and vehemently pressed to have David Lesly laid aside, as long before was designed, but covertly by the chief purgers of the times. The man himself did as much press as any to have liberty to demit his charge, being covered with shame and discouragement for his late unhappiness, and irritated with Mr. James Guthrie's publick invectives against him from the pulpit. The most of the committee of estates, and commission of the kirk, would have been content to let him go; but finding ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning



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