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The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. Bouvier. Note: The demise of the crown is a transfer of the crown, royal authority, or kingdom, to a successor. Thus, when Edward IV. was driven

Additional info about word: DEMISE

The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. Bouvier. Note: The demise of the crown is a transfer of the crown, royal authority, or kingdom, to a successor. Thus, when Edward IV. was driven from his throne for a few months by the house of Lancaster, this temporary transfer of his dignity was called a demise. Thus the natural death of a king or queen came to be denominated a demise, as by that event the crown is transferred to a successor. Blackstone. Demise and redemise, a conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it. Syn. -- Death; decease; departure. See Death. (more info) lay down; pref. dé- + mettre to put, place, lay, fr. 1. Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. 2. The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person. After the demise of the Queen , in 1737, they were held but twice a week. P. Cunningham.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMISE)

• Bequeath
• Give
• grant
• leave by will
• devise
• will
• bestow
• impart
• demise
• leave
• Legacy
• inheritance
• Death
• Departure
• decease
• dissolution
• mortality
• fall
• failure
• termination
• cessation
• expiration
• release
• exit
• Entail
• devolve
• involve
• necessitate
• induce

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEMISE)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to DEMISE)

• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• BEQUEATH
  1. To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak. 2. To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill. 3. To
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• ENTAIL
  incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or 1. That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• EXPIRATION
  The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold
• DEVOLVEMENT
  The act or process of devolving;; devolution.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• LEGACY
  from legare to appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to 1. A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. 2. A business with which one is intrusted by another;
• IMPARTIAL
  Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• DELEGACY
  1. The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. By way of delegacy or grand commission. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. Burton.
• SELF-IMPARTING
  Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in