From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Demise \De*mise"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Demised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Demising}.]
1. To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath. ''Power to demise my lands.'' --Swift.
What honor Canst thou demise to any child of mine? --Shak.
His soul is at his conception demised to him. --Hammond.
3. (Law) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Demise \De*mise"\, noun [F. d['e]mettre, p. p. d['e]mis, d['e]mise, to put away, lay down; pref. d['e]- (L. de or dis-) + mettre to put, place, lay, fr. L. mittere to send. See {Mission}, and cf. {Dismiss}, {Demit}.]
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. --P. Cunningham.
3. (Law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. --Bouvier.
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. --Blackstone.
{Demise and redemise}, a conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it.
Syn: Death; decease; departure. See {Death}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: {death}, {dying}] [ant: {birth}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "demise": abalienation, alienation, amortization, amortizement, annihilation, assignation, assignment, bane, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, biological death, cash in, cessation of life, cession, clinical death, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, crossing the bar, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, deeding, deliverance, delivery, depart, departure, die, disposal, disposition, dissolution, doom, drop, dying, ebb of life, end, end of life, ending, enfeoffment, eternal rest, exchange, exit, expiration, expire, extinction, extinguishment, final summons, finger of death, giving, go, going, going off, grave, hand of death, jaws of death, knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, lease and release, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, parting, pass, pass away, passing, passing away, passing over, perishing, quietus, release, rest, reward, sale, sentence of death, settlement, settling, shades of death, shadow of death, silence, sleep, somatic death, succumb, summons of death, surrender, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, vesting
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