different between demise vs demiss

English

Etymology

From Latin demissa, feminine singular of perfect passive participle of d?mitt?, apparently via Middle French démise, the feminine singular past participle of démettre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??ma?z/

Noun

demise (plural demises)

1. (law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
2. 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.
3. Death.
4. The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.

Related terms

• demission
• demit

Translations

Verb

demise (third-person singular simple present demises, present participle demising, simple past and past participle demised)

1. (transitive, obsolete, law) To give.
2. (transitive, law) To convey, as by will or lease.
3. (transitive, law) To transmit by inheritance.
4. (intransitive, law) To pass by inheritance.
5. (intransitive) To die.

Anagrams

• -semide, Medise, demies, medise

Czech

Etymology

From French démission, from Latin d?missi?, from d?mitt?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?m?s?]

Noun

demise f

1. resignation, abdication

   Synonyms: abdikace, rezignace

See also

• mise

Further reading

• demise in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• demise in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

English

Alternative forms

• demisse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin d?missus, past participle of d?mitt? (“demit”).

Adjective

demiss (comparative more demiss, superlative most demiss)

1. (archaic) Humble, lowly; abject.
   • 1595, Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets, London: John Windet, Sonnet 31,^[1]

     Oh that I had whole westerne windes of breath,

     My voice and tongue should not bee so remisse:

     My notes should not bee so rare and demisse:

   • 1660, Samuel Clarke, The Lives of Two and Twenty English Divines, London: Thomas Underhill and John Rothwell, “The Life and Death of Master William Bradshaw,” pp. 45-46,^[2]

     […] Master Bradshaw was not a man of much out side, nor forward to put out himself, of a very bashfull and demiss, but not fawning deportment […]

Anagrams

• Deisms, deisms, dismes, missed