Demise

/dɪˈmaɪz/ · noun

Meaning

(law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter..

Definitions by Sense

1. (law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
2. Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
3. (countable) Death; decease.
4. (countable) The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.
5. (technology) The atmospheric disintegration of a satellite or satellite component upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
6. (transitive, obsolete, law) To give.
7. (transitive, law) To convey, as by will or lease.
8. (transitive, law) To transmit by inheritance.

Example Sentences

Immediately upon the Royal Assent being signified to this Act the Instrument of Abdication […] shall have effect, and thereupon His Majesty shall cease to be King and there shall be a demise of the Crown, and accordingly the member of the Royal Family then next in succession to the Throne shall succeed thereto and to all the rights, privileges, and dignities thereunto belonging.

Earth looked her loveliest to receive my sweet sister's gentle dust; but all was harsh and sullen as her own nature when Lady Avonleigh's haughty ashes returned to their original element. Immediately after her demise, her son went abroad, and I accompanied him.

The lack of funding ultimately led to the project's demise.

More than a quarter of a century after the fraught events that followed the privatisation of the railway, Corbett has provided a warts and all analysis of what led to the spate of rail disasters in the aftermath of the break-up of British Rail, and (ultimately) to the demise of the company.

Relocating components to places where they receive more heating effect earlier in the reentry and even triggering a partial break-up of the satellite structure during reentry to aid demise.

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