To debase; to lower; to degrade.
It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
To manage; to conduct; to treat.
Management; treatment.
Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad
Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
(1595) From de- + mean (“lowly, base, common”), from Middle English mene, aphetic variation of imene (“mean, base, common”), from Old English ġemǣne (“mean, common”). Compare English bemean.
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But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set).
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.
‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’
demesne.