v. t. - To let fall; to depress.
v. t. - To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties.
v. t. - To lay down, as an office; to resign.
v. i. - 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.
n. - The act of demitting; also, a letter, certificate, or the like, certifying that a person has (honorably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.