demit

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See also: démit and démît

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To let fall; to depress; to yield.
  2. To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

Noun

demit (plural demits)

  1. The act of demitting.
  2. A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēmit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of dēmō
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