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Tranfported demi-gods flood round, 
And men grew heroes at tire found, 
Enflam’d with glory’s charms.. Pope. 
DE'MI-GORGE, [ Half the gorge or entrance into 
the baflion ; not taken dire&ly from angle to angle, where 
the baflion joins to the curtin, but from the angle of the 
flank to the center of the baflion; or the angle the two 
curtins would make, were they thus protracted to meet 
in the baflion. 
DE'MI-GROAT, f. Half a groat: 
E’en for a demi-groat this open’d foul, 
This boon companion, this elaftic breaft 
Revibrates quick. Shenjlone. 
DE'MI-L ANCE, f. A light lance ; a fliort fpear; a 
half-pike : 
Light demi-lances from afar they throw, 
Eaften’d with leathern thongs, to gall the foe. Drydcn. 
DEMI-LION,yi in heraldry, half a lion. 
DE'MI-LUNE, or Half-moon, f. An outwork, con¬ 
fiding of two faces, and two little flanks. It is often built 
before the angle of a baflion, and fometimes'alfo before 
the curtin ; though now it is very feldom ufed. 
DE'MI-MAN,yi Half a man : a term of reproach.—• 
We mu ft adventure this battle, left we perilh by the 
complaints of this barking demi-man. Kno/lcs. 
DE'MI-QJJAVER,yj A note in mufic, two of which 
are equal to a quaver. 
DE'MI-QUIAN, a river, fwamp, and lake, of North 
America, on the weftern fide of Illinois river, in the 
north-weft territory. The river runs a fouth-fouth-eaft 
courfe, is navigable 120 miles, and has the fwamp of its 
name on the northern bank near its mouth; which is 
fifty yards wide, thirty-two miles above Sagamond, and 
165 miles above the Mifliflippi. The lake is of a circular 
form, 200 yards weft of the river, is fix miles acrofs, and 
empties into the Illinois by a fmall paffage four feet deep, 
1 7.1 miles from the Miflilfippi. 
DE'MI-SEMIQUAVER, f. [from demi, femi, and 
quaver. ] The leaf! note of time in mufical compofition; 
half afentiquaver, the eighth part of a crotchet. 
DE'MI-SEXTILE, f. [from demi and fertile. ] In af- 
tronomy, that afpeft of the planets or ftars which takes 
in a twelth part of the heavens, the diftance of thirty 
degrees. 
DE'MI-WOLF, f. Half a wolf; a mongrel dog, be¬ 
tween a dog and a wolf: lycifca : 
Spaniels, curs, 
Showghs, water-rugs, and dcmi-wolves,- are ’cleped 
All by the name of dogs. Shakcfpcare. 
DEMIAN'KA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the 
Irtifch, near Demianfkoi. 
DEMIAN'SKOI, .a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Tobolik, fituated at the conflux of the Demi- 
anka and the Irtifch : xoo miles north-north-eaft of To- 
bolfk. Lat. 59. 35. N. Ion. 87. 8. E. Ferro. 
DEMIGRA'TION, f. [from the Lat. de, from ; and 
migro, to wander. ] The act of moving from one place to 
another. Not much ufed. 
DE'MIR CAPI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia : twenty miles fouth-eaft of Balikefri. 
DEMI'SE,yi [from demettre, demis, demife, Fr. ] Death; 
deceafe. It is feldom ufed but for that of a crowned 
head : and the word is much oftener ufed of the crown 
jtfelf, which fuffers a demife, or transfer, by the death of 
the wearer of it.—When we fay the demife of the crown, 
we mean only, that in confequence of the difunion of the 
king’s body natural from his body politic, the kingdom 
is transferred, or demifed, to his fucceflor. B/ackJlone. 
To DEMI'SE, v. a. \_demis, demife, Fr.] To grant at 
one’s death; to grant by will; to bequeath.—My exe¬ 
cutors fnall not have power to demife my lands to be pur- 
chafed. Swift. 
DEMI'SE, f. in law, applied to an eftate, either in fee. 
Vox,. V. No. 307. 
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for term of life, or years, but rnoft commonly the latter; 
it is ufed in writs for any eftate. 2 Injl. 483. The word 
demiji, in a leafe for years, implies a warranty to the left 
fee and his aflignee ; and upon this word adtion of cove., 
nant lies againft the heir of the lelfor, if he ouft the left. 
fee : it binds the executors of the lelfor, who has fee- 
Ample, or fee-tail, where any leftee is evicted, and the 
executor hath affets ; but not the lelfor for life’s execu¬ 
tors, without exprefs words, that the lelfee fhall hold his 
whole term. Dyer 257. The king’s death is in law term¬ 
ed, the demife of the king, to his royal fuccelfor, of his 
crown and dignity, &c. 
Demise and Redemise, is where there are mutual 
leafes made from one to another on each fide, of the fame 
land, or fomething out of it; and is proper upon the 
grant of a rent-charge, See. 
DEMIS'SION,yi [demijjio, Lat.] Degradation; dimi¬ 
nution of dignity; depreflion.—Inexorable rigour is worfe 
than a lafehe demi/Jion of fovereign authority. L’EJlrange. 
DEMIS'SIVE, adj. \_demijfus, Lat.] Humble.—The 
fubjefts very orderly, repentant, and demijjive-, the gover- 
nefs more rigid and imperious than ever. Shenjlone. 
DEMIS'SY (Caefar), a man greatly diftinguilhed in 
the learned world, born at Berlin, January 2,^1703, the 
Ion of a merchant. He ftudiecl firft at the Frencli col¬ 
lege at Berlin, and thence removed to the univerfity of 
Francfort on the Oder. He was examined for the mi- 
niftry in 1725, and after fome difficulties obtained it; 
but the eccleliaftics there being hampered with fubfcrip- 
tions, to which he could not aifent, he quitted the coun¬ 
try foon after. He preached about five years in different 
towns of the United Provinces, from whence he was in¬ 
vited to London in 1731, and ordained to ferve the French 
chapel in the Savoy. In 1762, he was named by the bi- 
ftiop of London to be one of the French chaplains to the 
king in his chapel at St. James’s. He died Auguft io, 
1775. He was greatly affifting to many of the learned in 
their feveral undertakings : among thofe who are in¬ 
debted to him, were the late profelfor Wetftein in his 
lplendid edition of the GreekTeftament, and the late Dr. 
Jortin in his Life of Erafmus. His chief works are, 1. 
Paraboles ou Fables. 2. Three volumes of Sermons, 
publiftied by Iris widow after his death. 
To DEMI'T, v. a. \_demitto, Lat.] To deprefs; to hang 
down; to let fall.—When they are in their pride, that 
is, advancing their train, if they decline their neck to 
the ground, they prefently demit and let fall the fame. 
Brown. 
. DE'MIVOLT, f. [from demi and volt, Lat.] One of 
the artificial movements of a horfe. 
DEMIUR'GE, or Demiurgus,/! [from 0;, which 
denotes a public fervant, and Epyov, work.] In the my¬ 
thology of the eaftern philofophers; was one of the aeons, 
employed in the creation of the world. 
DEMIUR'GICAL, adj. Creative, belonging to a cre¬ 
ator. Scott. 
DEMM, a town of Arabia, in the country of Yemen: 
twenty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Chamir. 
DEM'MIN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and duchy of Pomerania, fituated on the 
Poene. Grain forms the principal article of its com¬ 
merce. It was taken by the Swedes in 1631; by the 
imperialifts in 1637 ; and again by tire Swedes in 1639 ; 
twenty-fix miles fouth of Stralfund, Lat. 53. 53. N. Ion. 
30. 43, E. Ferro. 
DEMOCE'DES, an eminent Grecian phyfician, na¬ 
tive of Croton, and fon of Calliphon. Being wearied 
with living under the rigorous authority of his father, 
he went to AEgina, where he fo much diftinguilhed him- 
felf by his (kill, as to receive the falary of a talent out 
of the public treafury. 1 -Ie was thence invited to Athens, 
at the falary of one hundred minae ; and was afterwards 
engaged in the lervice of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos. 
When that prince had been put to death by Orx-es, 
who was himfelf killed by order of Darius Hyftafpis, 
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