# demean
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /dɪˈmiːn/
* Rhymes: -iːn
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)
* To debase; to lower; to degrade.
** 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
* To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
* To mortify.

##### Synonyms

* debase
* lower
* degrade

##### Derived terms

* demeaner
* misdemean

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin mināre, from minārī (“to threaten”).

#### Verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)
* (obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
** 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
* (now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
** c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.
** 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:They answered […] that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.

##### Translations
#### Noun

demean (usually uncountable, plural demeans)
* (obsolete) Management; treatment.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad
* (obsolete) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:‘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)
* demesne.
* resources; means.

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

de- +‎ mean

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌdiːˈmiːn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)
* (statistics, transitive) To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set).
** 2013, Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Katrin Golsch, 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