Demean /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Demeaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning

1. To manage; to conduct; to treat.

   [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.

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.

   They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.

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.

1. Management; treatment. [Obs.]

   Vile demean and usage bad.

2. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. [Obs.]

   With grave demean and solemn vanity.

1. Demesne. [Obs.]
2. Resources; means. [Obs.]

   You know How narrow our demeans are.