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Definition of Demit
1. v. t. To let fall; to depress.
2. v. i. To lay down or relinquish an office, membership, authority, or the like; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge; -- generally used with an implication that the act is voluntary.
3. n. The act of demitting; also, a letter, certificate, or the like, certifying that a person has (honorably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.
Definition of Demit
1. Verb. (transitive) To let fall; to depress; to yield. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Demit
1. to resign [v -MITTED, -MITTING, -MITS] - See also: resign
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demit
Literary usage of Demit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Correspondence of the Rev. Robert Wodrow by Robert Wodrow (1843)
"TEMPTATIONS TO demit. To Mr William Wright, Minister at Kilmarnock. REV.
DEAR BROTHER,—The accounts I have had of the different practices among us as to the ..."
2. Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Colorado of the Most Ancient and Honorable by Freemasons Grand Lodge of Colorado, Grand Lodge of Colorado, Freemasons (1870)
"A Lodge might properly refuse to grant a demit to a brother who, though he has
paid his ... A certificate of demit, purporting to emanate from such foreign ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"... or only after Amra Ibn Lohn one of the first and greatest idolaters of Arabia,
are moot -points among Moslim (a word demit ' from Islam) theologians. ..."
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