demiseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈmaɪz/
• 韻: -aɪz

名詞

demise (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 demises)

1. (law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
2. 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.
   • 1936, “His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936”, in legislation.gov.uk‎^[1], retrieved 9 December 2022:

     Immediately upon the Royal Assent being signified to this Act the Instrument of Abdication executed by His present Majesty on the tenth day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, set out in the Schedule to this Act, shall have effect, and thereupon His Majesty shall cease to be King and there shall be a demise of the Crown, and accordingly the member of the Royal Family then next in succession to the Throne shall succeed thereto and to all the rights, privileges, and dignities thereunto belonging.

3. (countable) Death.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 124:

     Earth looked her loveliest to receive my sweet sister's gentle dust; but all was harsh and sullen as her own nature when Lady Avonleigh's haughty ashes returned to their original element. Immediately after her demise, her son went abroad, and I accompanied him.

4. (countable) The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.

   The lack of funding ultimately led to the project's demise.

派生語

• early fetal demise

関連する語

• demission
• demit

動詞

demise (三人称単数 現在形 demises, 現在分詞 demising, 過去形および過去分詞形 demised)

1. (transitive, obsolete, law) To give.
2. (transitive, law) To convey, as by will or lease.
3. (transitive, law) To transmit by inheritance.
4. (intransitive, law) To pass by inheritance.
5. (intransitive) To die.

アナグラム

• -semide, Eidems, Medise, demies, medise