To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.
To let fall; to depress; to yield.
A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.
The act of demitting.