<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>death or decease.</li><li>termination of existence or operation: the demise of the empire.</li><li>Law: a death or decease occasioning the transfer of an estate.</li><li>a conveyance or transfer of an estate.</li><li>Government: transfer of sovereignty, as by the death or deposition of the sovereign.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object), demised, demising.<ul><li>Law: to transfer (an estate or the like) for a limited time; lease.</li><li>Government: to transfer (sovereignty), as by the death or abdication of the sovereign.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object), demised, demising.<ul><li>Law: to pass by bequest, inheritance, or succession.</li></ul></li></ul>