demean
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Is demean a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of demean?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.Examples: "But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter."obsoletetransitive
2. (now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.Examples: "they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death."; "They answered […] that they should demean themselves according to their instructions."archaictransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Management; treatment.Examples: "Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad"obsoletetransitiveuncountableusually
2. (obsolete) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.Examples: "‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’"; "with grave demean and solemn vanity"obsoletetransitiveuncountableusually
verb (English)
1. (statistics, transitive) To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set).Examples: "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) Tᵢ observations per unit."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary