In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
DEMEAN
Etymology 1
Verb
demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)
To debase; to lower; to degrade.
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
To mortify.
Synonyms
• debase
• lower
• degrade
Etymology 2
Verb
demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)
(obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
(now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Noun
demean (usually uncountable, plural demeans)
(obsolete) Management; treatment.
(obsolete) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
Etymology 3
Noun
demean (plural demeans)
demesne.
resources; means.
Etymology 4
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 dataset).
Anagrams
• Medean, Nadeem, amende, amened, dename, meaned
Source: Wiktionary
De*mean", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demeaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning.] Etym: [OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F. se démener to struggledé- (L. de) + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See Menace.]
1. To manage; to conduct; to treat. [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton.
2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death. Shak. They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon.
3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. Thackeray.
Note: This sense is probably due to a false etymology which regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean.
De*mean", n. Etym: [OF. demene. See Demean, v. t.]
1. Management; treatment. [Obs.] Vile demean and usage bad. Spenser.
2. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. [Obs.] With grave demean and solemn vanity. West.
De*mean", n. Etym: [See Demesne.]
1. Demesne. [Obs.]
2. pl.
Definition: Resources; means. [Obs.] You know How narrow our demeans are. Massinger.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
28 April 2024
POLYGENIC
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
Coffee Trivia
