demean

verb

1. (transitive)To debase; to lower; to degrade.

   “It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.”

2. (transitive)To humble; to humiliate.
3. (transitive)To mortify.
4. (obsolete, transitive)To manage; to conduct; to treat.

   “But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.”

5. (archaic, transitive)To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.

   “they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.”

   “They answered […] that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.”

6. (transitive)To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set).

   “Concerning FE estimation, it makes no difference whether you demean the data with unit-specific means computed on (balanced) T observations per unit, or with unit-specific means computed on (unbalanced) Tᵢ observations per unit.”

noun

1. (obsolete, transitive, uncountable, usually)Management; treatment.

   “Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad”

2. (obsolete, transitive, uncountable, usually)Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.

   “‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’”

   “with grave demean and solemn vanity”

3. (transitive)demesne.
4. (transitive)resources; means.