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demisability

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de⋅mise

  [di-mahyz] noun, verb, -mised, -mis⋅ing.
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–noun
1. death or decease.
2. termination of existence or operation: the demise of the empire.
3. Law.
a. a death or decease occasioning the transfer of an estate.
b. a conveyance or transfer of an estate.
4. Government. transfer of sovereignty, as by the death or deposition of the sovereign.
–verb (used with object)
5. Law. to transfer (an estate or the like) for a limited time; lease.
6. Government. to transfer (sovereignty), as by the death or abdication of the sovereign.
–verb (used without object)
7. Law. to pass by bequest, inheritance, or succession.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME dimis(s)e, demise < OF demis (ptp. of desmetre) < L dīmissum (ptp. of dīmittere); see demit 1 , dismiss

Related forms:
de⋅mis⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
de⋅mis⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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Main Entry: demise
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French, from feminine past participle of demettre to convey by lease, from Old French, to put down, give up, renounce, from Latin demittere to let fall and dimittere to release
1 : the conveyance of property by will or lease : LEASE
2 : the transmission of property by testate or intestate succession
3 : charter of a boat in which the owner surrenders completely the possession, command, and navigation of the boat called also bareboat charter
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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