Demit /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Demitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Demitting

1. To let fall; to depress. [R.]

   They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [i. e., their train].

2. To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties. [R.]
3. To lay down, as an office; to resign. [Scot.]

   General Conway demitted his office.

1. To lay down or relinquish an office, membership, authority, or the like; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge; -- generally used with an implication that the act is voluntary.

1. The act of demitting; also, a letter, certificate, or the like, certifying that a person has (honorably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.