demean

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To debase

   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. 2

   To humble

   To humble; to humiliate.

3. 3

   To mortify.

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   1. 4

      To manage

      To manage; to conduct; to treat.

      • But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
   2. 5

      To conduct

      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.
   3. 6

      Management

      Management; treatment.

      • Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad
   4. 7

      Behavior

      Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.

      • ‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’
      • with grave demean and solemn vanity
   5. 8

      demesne.

   6. 9

      resources

      resources; means.

   7. 10

      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.

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