demerse

From Latin dēmersus, past participle of dēmergere. See merge.

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɜː(ɹ)s/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

demerse (third-person singular simple present demerses, present participle demersing, simple past and past participle demersed)

1. (transitive, obsolete, also figurative) To immerse, to submerge (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.

• “demerse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• deemers, emersed, medrese, redeems

demerse

1. third-person singular past historic of demergere

demerse f pl

1. feminine plural of demerso

dēmerse

1. vocative masculine singular of dēmersus