v. To let fall; to depress.v. To yield or submit; to humble; to lower.v. To lay down, as an office; to resign.verb-intransitive. 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.