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.
To withdraw or retire from a position or from a team.
To wait; to stop pursuing, stop fighting, or relax from a heightened readiness posture.