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Demean"
(), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Demeaned (); p. pr. & vb. n.Demeaning.] [OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F. se dmener to struggle; pref. d- (L. de) + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See Menace.]
1. To manage; to conduct; to treat.
[Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
Milton.
2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
They have demeaned themselves
Like men born to renown by life or death.
Shak.
They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.
Clarendon.
3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
Thackeray.
This sense is probably due to a false etymology which regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean.

Demean"
(), n.[OF. demene. See Demean, v. t.]
1. Management; treatment. [Obs.]
Vile demean and usage bad.
Spenser.
2. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. [Obs.]
With grave demean and solemn vanity.
West.

Demean"
n.[See Demesne.]
1. Demesne. [Obs.]
2. pl. Resources; means. [Obs.]
You know
How narrow our demeans are.
Massinger.



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