Demise
[dɪ'maɪz]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DEATH]
Editor: Nicolas
Definition
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.
Typist: Psyche
Examples
- It was over Sir Pitt Crawley's house; but it did not indicate the worthy baronet's demise. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The felicitous word demise, which had seasonably occurred to him, had raised his spirits even above their usual evening pitch. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Was not a bowl of wine the cause of the demise of Alexander the Great, or, at least, does not Dr. Lempriere say so? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When the demise took place, her husband was in London attending to some of his innumerable schemes, and busy with his endless lawyers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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