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demersion Obs. or rare.|dɪˈmɜːʃən|
[ad. L. dēmersiōn-em. n. of action from dēmergĕre: see demerge. (Occurs also in 15–16th c. French.)]
Plunging in, immersion; submergence, drowning.
1692Ray Dissol. World iii. v. (1732) 360 This Sinking and Demersion of buildings. 1727Bailey vol. II, Demersion, (with Chymists) the putting any Medicine into a dissolving Liquor. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca i. xx. 93 καταποντισµὸς, demersion, or drowning in the sea. 1820W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. II. 507 He was..muddled with mathematics, to whom they were always a sentence of intellectual demersion. |