demerse
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin dēmersus, past participle of dēmergere. See merge.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editdemerse (third-person singular simple present demerses, present participle demersing, simple past and past participle demersed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To immerse (something).
- 1682, Robert Boyle, “A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The Second Part. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 151, column 2:
- The peach, vvhich hitherto vvas demerſed, now mounted up to the upper part of the liquor in the ſecond receiver; all the reſt ſtaid in the bottom.
Anagrams
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “demerse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editdemerse
- third-person singular past historic of demergere
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editdemerse f pl
Latin
editParticiple
editdēmerse
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