different between demesne vs demean

English

Etymology

From Middle English demayne, from Anglo-Norman demeyne, demene et al., Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”) (whence French domaine (“domain”)), a noun use of an adjective, from Latin dominicus (“belonging to a lord or master”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame. Doublet of domain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??me?n/, /d??mi?n/
• Hyphenation: de?mesne
• Rhymes: -e?n, -i?n
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

demesne (plural demesnes)

1. A lord’s chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor’s own use.
2. A region or area; a domain.
   • 1816, John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, lines 5-6

     Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
     That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;

Translations

References

• demesne in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• seedmen

Old French

Adjective

demesne m (oblique and nominative feminine singular demesne)

1. Alternative form of demaine

Noun

demesne m (oblique plural demesnes, nominative singular demesnes, nominative plural demesne)

1. Alternative form of demaine

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??mi?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Etymology 1

(1595) From de- +? mean (“lowly, base, common”), from Middle English mene, aphetic variation of imene (“mean, base, common”), from Old English ?em?ne (“mean, common”). Compare English bemean.

Verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

1. To debase; to lower; to degrade.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:

     It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.

2. To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
3. To mortify.

Synonyms

• debase
• lower
• degrade

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Vulgar Latin *min?re (“to drive”) and Latin min?r? (“to threaten”).

Verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

1. (obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

     But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.

2. (now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.

Translations

Noun

demean (usually uncountable, plural demeans)

1. (obsolete) Management; treatment.
2. (obsolete) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.5:

     ‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’

   • 1739, Gilbert West, A canto of the Fairy Queen (later called On the Abuse of Travelling)

     with grave demean and solemn vanity

Translations

Related terms

• demeanor

Etymology 3

Variant of demesne.

Noun

demean (plural demeans)

1. demesne.
2. resources; means.

Translations

Etymology 4

de- +? mean

Verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

1. (statistics, transitive) To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).
   • 2013, Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Katrin Golsch, and Alexander W. Schmidt, Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys, page 177:

     Concerning FE estimation, it makes no difference whether you demean the data with unit-specific means computed on (balanced) T observations per unit, or with unit-specific means computed on (unbalanced) T_i observations per unit.

Anagrams

• Medean, Nadeem, amende, amened, dename, meaned