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demagogue (dem'a-gog), . [< F. demagogue 
= Sp. Pg. It. deniagogo = D. demagoog = G. 
Dan. Sw. demagog = Euss. demagogu, < NL. 
demagogus, < Gr. iriitayuyof, a leader of the peo- 
pi. dulfon, pp. dolfen) = OFries. 
toe, dig, = OS. bi-delbhan = OHG. 
delvauxene 
delvauxene, delvauxite (del-vo'zen, -zit), . 
[After the Belgian chemist Delvaujc.] A variety 
of dufrenite containing a large excess of water. 
delve (delv), v. ; pret. and pp. delved (pret. for- u.^,,v. y i,y, ~... -. /-/-, -- i 
rnerly dolve, pp. dolneu), ppr. delving. [< ME. ple,< at/iot, the people, the populace, + fyn(, 
deffew (pret. rfoWj dotee, pp. dolven), < AS. <JeZ/a a leader, < dxi', lead: see agent, act.] 1. His- 
torically, a leader of the people ; a person who 
sways the people by oratory or persuasion. 
Demosthenes and Cicero, though each of them a leader, 
or, as the Greeks called it, a demagogue, in a popular state, 
yet seem to differ in their practice. Swift. 
All the popular jealousies and alarms at regal authority 
would have been excited by demagogues in the senate as 
well as in the comitia ; for there are in all nations aristo- 
cratical demagogues as well as democratical. 
J. Adams, Works, IV. 524. 
2. An unprincipled popular orator or leader; 
one who endeavors to curry favor with the peo- 
ple or some particular portion of them by pan- 
dering to their prejudices or wishes, or by play- 
ing on their ignorance or passions; specifical- 
ly, an unprincipled political agitator ; one who 
seeks to obtain political power or the further- 
ance of some sinister purpose by pandering to 
the ignorance or prejudice of the populace. 
A plausible insignificant word, in the mouth of an ex- 
pert demagogue, is a dangerous and deceitful weapon. 
South, Works, II. ix. 
To lessen the hopes of usurping demagogues, we must 
enlighten, animate, and combine the spirit of freemen. 
Ames, Works, II. 273. 
The doctrine of State rights can be so handled by an 
adroit demagogue as easily to confound the distinction be- 
tween liberty and lawlessness in the minds of ignorant 
persons. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 169. 
demagoguery (dem'a-gog-e-ri), n. [< dema- 
gogue + -ery.] Action characteristic of a dema- 
gogue; demagogism. 
An element of demagoguery tampered with the Irish 
vote in the person of Jerry, nominally porter. 
The Century, XXXII. 258. 
demagoguism, n. See demagogism. 
demagogy (dem'a-goj-i), n. [= G. demagogie 
= Dan. Sw. demdgogi, < F. demagogic = Sp. Pg. 
It. demagogia, < Gr. Smiayuyia, < 6rjuayuy6(, a dem- 
agogue : see demagogue.] Demagogism. 
American demagogy . . . devotes more efforts to con- 
vincing . . . the public conscience than to enlightening 
the public mind upon the economic or sociological bear- 
ings of the [Chinese] question. N. A. Rev., CXXVI. 606. 
(pret. 
delva = D. , , 
bi-telban, bury.] I. trans. 1. To dig; turnup 
or excavate with a spade or some other tool. 
Do delve up smal the moolde of every roote. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 77. 
Delve of convenient depth your thrashing-floor. 
Dryden. 
2f. To bury. 
Salamon for this cause made it to be taken vp and doluen 
depe in the grouude. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 155. 
H. intrans. 1. To practise digging; labor 
with the spado. 
The common people . . . doe dig and delve with unde- 
fatigable toyle. Sandys, Travailes, p. 215. 
When Adam delv'd and Eve span, 
Who was then a gentleman ? Old rime. 
Ever of her he thought when he delved in the soil of his 
garden. Longfellow, Miles Standish, viii. 
2. Figuratively, to carry on laborious or con- 
tinued research or investigation, as one digging 
for hidden treasure. 
Not in the cells where frigid learning delves 
In Aldine folios mouldering on their shelves. 
0. W. Holmes, Poetry. 
He remained satisfied with himself to the last, delving 
in his own mine. Whipple, Ess. and Kev., II. 26. 
delve (delv), n. [< ME. delve ; the same word as 
del/ 1 , q. v. ; from the verb.] If. A place dug 
or hollowed out; a pitfall; a ditch; a den; a 
cave. 
In delves deepe is sette thair [almonds'] appetite, 
Thaire magnitude a larger lande requireth. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 67. 
It is a darksome delve farre under ground. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. i. 20. 
2. That which is dug out : as, a delve of coals 
(a certain quantity of coal dug from a mine). 
[Prov. Eng.] 
delver (del'ver), n. [< ME. deluere, < AS. del- 
fere, a digger, < delfan, dig: see delve.] 1. 
One who digs with or as if with a spade. 
It is so goode that in the blossomynge 
She wol not lese a tloure that forth is brought. 
The delver is to help her with delvynge. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 87. 
He turned and looked as keenly at her 
As careful robins eye the delaer's toil. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
2. Figuratively, a patient and laborious inves- 
tigator. 
delving (del'ving), n. 1. Digging. 2. Figu- 
ratively, search; laborious investigation; re- 
search. 
It was no ordinary delving which struck into the dis- 
persed veins of the dim and dark mine of our history. 
/. D' Israeli, Amen, of Lit., I. 279. 
demagnetization (de-mag"net-i-za'shon), n. 
[< demagnetize + -ation.] 1. The act or pro- 
cess of depriving of magnetic polarity. 2. 
In mesmerism, the act of restoring a person in 
the mesmeric trance to a normal state of con- 
sciousness ; demesmerization. 
Also spelled demagnetisation. 
demagnetize (de-mag'net-iz), v. t. ; pret. and 
pp. demagnetized, ppr. demagnetizing. [< de- 
priv. + magnetize.] 1. To deprive of magnet- 
ic polarity. 
A thunder-storm demagnetized the compass of his Bri- 
tannic majesty's ship Wren, in which I was then a midship, 
man. W. C. Russell, Jack's Courtship, xxix. 
The induction of a magnet on itself always tends to di- 
minish the magnetisation, and acts like a demagnetising 
force. Atkinson, tr. of Mascart and Joubert, I. 386. 
2. To demesmerize ; restore from a mesmerized 
state to normal consciousness. 
Also spelled demagnetise. 
demagogic, demagogical (dem-a-goj'ik, -i-kal), 
a. [= F. demagogique = Sp. demagdgico = Pg. 
demagogico (cf. D. G. demagogisch = Dan. Sw. 
demagogisk), < Gr. &i/iayoyiK6f, of or fit for a 
demagogue, < %/ayu}<of , a demagogue : see dema- 
gogue.] Relating to or like a demagogue ; given 
to pandering to the rabble from self-interest. 
Demagogic leaders from South Germany stumped the 
province and stirred up the people. Lowe, Bismarck, 1. 363. 
demagogism, demagoguism (dem'a-gog-izm), 
n. [< demagogue + -ism.] The practices and 
principles of a demagogue ; a pandering to the 
multitude for selfish ends. 
There has been nothing of Cleon, still less of Strepsia- 
des striving to underbid him in demagogism, to be found 
in the public utterances of Mr. Lincoln. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 176. 
demain (de-man'), n. [Early mod. E. also de- 
maine, demean, dtmeasne, demesne (the last be- 
ing the spelling now usual); < ME. demayn, 
demaine, demeine, demeyne, demeigne, < OF. de- 
maine, demeine, demagne, demoine, power, do- 
minion, a var. of domaine (whence the other E. 
form domain), < L. dominium, right of owner- 
ship, power, dominion: see domain and de- 
mesne, doublets of demain, and see dominion, 
damage.] If. Power; dominion. 
There nude I now that every creature 
Somtime a yere hath .love in his demaine. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., III. 349. 
That al the worlde weelded in his [Alexander's] demeyne. 
Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 1. 675. 
2t. Same as domain. 3. Same as demesne. 
Come, take possession of this wealthy place, 
The Earth's sole glory : take, (deer Son) to thee 
This Farm's demains, leaue the Chief right to me. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. 
You know 
How narrow our demeans are, and, what's more, 
. . . we hardly can subsist. 
ilassinfjer, The Picture, i. 1. 
In bis demain (or demesne) as of fee, in old Eng. law, 
the technical expression for an estate of fee simple in pos- 
session. 
In England there is no Land (that of the Crown only 
excepted) which is not held of a Superiour ; for all depend 
either mediately or immediately on the Crown : So that 
when a Man in Pleading would signify his Lands to be his 
own, he says. That he i-s or was seized or possessed thereof 
in his Demaine as of Fee ; whereby he means, that altho' 
his Land be to him and his Heirs for ever, yet it is not 
true Demaine, but depending upon a Superioiir Lord. 
E. Phillips, 1706. 
demaine 't, . An obsolete form of demain. 
demaine 2 !, ". < An obsolete form of demean 1 . 
demand (de-mand'), v. [Early mod. E. also dc- 
inautiil; < 'ME. "demanden (not found, but the 
noun occurs), < OF. demander, F. demander = 
Pr. Sp. Pg. demandar = It. demandare, < ML. 
demandare, demand, L. give in charge, intrust, 
< de, away, + mandare, intrust, commit : see 
mandate, and cf. command, remand.] I. trans. 
1 . To ask or require as by right or authority, 
or as that to which one has some valid claim ; 
lay claim to; exact: as, parents demand obedi- 
ence; what price do you demand f 
Ne ought demaunds but that we loving bee, 
As he himselfe hath lov'd us afore-hand. 
Spenser, Heavenly Lovu. 
demand 
The pound of flesh, which I demand of him. 
Is dearly bought ; 'tis mine, and I will have it. 
Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. 
We demand of superior men that they be superior in this 
that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in 
their day, and accelerate so far the progress of civiliza- 
tion. Emerson, Fugitive Slave Law. 
2. To ask or interrogate by authority or in a 
formal manner. [Now rare.] 
The officers of the children of Israel . . . were beaten, 
and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task 
in making brick? Ex. v. 14. 
Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil, 
Why he hath thus ensnar'd my soul and body ? 
Shak., Othello, v. 2. 
He was demanded, if he were of the same opinion he 
had been in about the petition or remonstrance. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 325. 
And Guinevere . . . desired his name, and sent 
Her maiden to demand it of the dwarf. 
. Tennyson, Geraint. 
3. To ask for with insistence or urgency; make 
a positive requisition for; exact as a tribute or 
a concession: as, the thief demanded my purse. 
And when all things were ready, the people with shouts 
demavnded the Sacrifice, which vsually was accustomed for 
the health of their Nation. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 663. 
A proper jest, and never heard before, 
That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth, 
For costs and charges in transporting her ! 
. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 1. 
4. To call for; require as necessary or useful: 
as, the execution of this work demands great 
care. 
All that fashion demands is composure and self-content. 
JSmerton, Essays, 2d ser., p. 131. 
Sacrifices are not accomplished simply because occa- 
sions demand them. X. A. Rev., CXXXIX. 305. 
5. In law, to summon to court : as, being de- 
manded, he does not come.=Syn. 1 and 2. Request, 
.Be^etc. See <!*!. 
II. intrans. To make a demand ; inquire per- 
emptorily; ask. 
The soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And 
what shall we do? Luke iii. 14. 
demand (de-mand'), n. [< ME. demande, de- 
maunde, < OF. demande, F. demande = Pr. Sp. 
Pg. demanda = It. dimanda, a demand ; from 
the verb.] 1 . An asking for or a claim made by 
virtue of a right or supposed right to the thing 
sought; an authoritative claim; an exaction: 
as, the demands of one's creditors. 
He will give you audience : and wherein 
It shall appear that your demand* are just, 
You shall enjoy them. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 
He that has the confidence to turn his wishes into de- 
mands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to 
obtain them. Locke. 
2. An insistent asking or requisition ; exaction 
without reference to right: as, the demands of 
a blackmailer. 3. That which is demanded or 
required; something claimed, exacted, or ne- 
cessary: as, what are your demands upon the 
estate f the demands upon one's time; the de- 
mands of nature. 
The sufferings of the poor are not caused by their hav- 
ing little as compared with the rich ; but by their having 
little as compared with the simplest demands of human 
nature. W. II. Mallock, Social Equality, p. 203. 
4. The state of being in request or sought af- 
ter; requisition; call. 
In 1678 came forth a second edition [of the " Pilgrim's 
Progress"] with additions ; and then the demand became 
immense. Nacaulay, John Bunyan. 
Specifically 5. In polit. econ., the desire to 
purchase and possess, coupled with the power 
of purchasing: sometimes technically called 
effectual demand: as, the supply exceeds the 
demand; there is no demand for pig-iron. 
Adam Smith, who introduced the expression effectual 
demand, employed it to denote the demand of those who 
are willing and able to give for the commodity what he 
calls its natural price : that is, the price which will enable 
it to be permanently produced and brought to market. 
J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., III. ii. 3. 
I would therefore define . . . Demand as the desire for 
commodities or services, seeking its end by an offer of 
general purchasing power. Cairns, Pol. Econ., I. ii. 2. 
6. In law: (a) The right to claim anything 
from another person, whether founded on con- 
tract or tort, or superior right of property. (6) 
The asking or seekingf or what is due or claimed 
as due, either expressly by words, or by impli- 
cation, as by seizure of goods or entry into 
lands. 7. Inquiry; question; interrogation. 
Than they axed hym many dt'tnauntlett, but he wolde 
speke no more. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 16. 
The good Anchises raised him with his hand, 
Who, thus encouraged, answered our demand. 
Diijden, JEneid, iii. 
Alternative demand. See alternative. Demand and 
supply, in I'ulit. ccvn., the relation between the desire to 
