Demise
[dɪ'maɪz]
解釋/意思:
(n.) 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.
(n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.
(n.) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
(v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
(v. t.) To convey; to give.
(v. t.) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
安格斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Conveyance, alienation, transfer, transference, making over.[2]. Death (of a royal or a distinguished person), decease.
v. a. [1]. Alienate, transfer, consign, devolve, convey, make over, deliver over.[2]. Bequeath, devise, will, grant by will.
編輯:基蒂
同義詞及反義詞：
[See DEATH]
整理:尼古拉斯
解釋/意思:
n. a transferring: death esp. of a sovereign or a distinguished person: a transfer of the crown or of an estate to a successor.—v.t. to send down to a successor: to bequeath by will.—adj. Demī′sable.
校對:赛克
例句/造句/用法:
- It was over Sir Pitt Crawley's house; but it did not indicate the worthy baronet's demise. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The felicitous word demise, which had seasonably occurred to him, had raised his spirits even above their usual evening pitch. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Was not a bowl of wine the cause of the demise of Alexander the Great, or, at least, does not Dr. Lempriere say so? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- When the demise took place, her husband was in London attending to some of his innumerable schemes, and busy with his endless lawyers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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