What men wolde of hitdeme I can nat seye; It nedeth me ful sleyly for to pleye.
But lest thowdeme I truste not to thee, Now herkne, freend, for thus it stant with me.
My fader nil for no-thing do me grace To goon ayein, for nought I can him queme; 695 And if so be that I my terme passe, My Troilus shal in his hertedeme That I am fals, and so it may wel seme.
Sithen schall I come agayne To demebothe goode and ill Tille endles ioie or peyne; 35 [Th]us is my Fadris will.
And the Alkaron seythe also of the day of doom, how God schal come to deme alle maner of folk; and the gode he schalle drawen on his syde, and putte hem into blisse; and the wykkede he schal condempne to the peynes of helle.
In Attica also, in the deme of Athmonon, there was a shrine of the goddess of Cythera, which king Porphyrion, i.
He is described by his Deme as Butades; he is probably enough the father of this Thrasybulus.
The rhetorical teacher Antiphon, of the deme Rhamnus, took it in hand especially, acquired the confidence of the clubs, and drew the plan of campaign against the democracy.
Deme the best of every doute, Tyl the truthe be tryed out.
The advice to look at home and to mind primarily one's own business is brought out in the line, "Loke in thy mirrour and deme none other wyghts.
A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unitdeme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.
Noted as the birthplace of Thucydides, a deme of Attica of the tribe of Leontis.
Laurium was an Athenian demeat the extremity of the Attic peninsula containing valuable silver mines, the revenues of which were largely employed in the maintenance of the fleet and payment of the crews.
And when he said he was a Plataean, I asked from what deme he was, on the suggestion of a bystander that I should call him before the tribe to which he pretended to belong.
And there was Hagnodorus of Amphitrope, of the samedeme as Menestratus, a connection of Critias, one of the Thirty.
All his four men bar thaim quietlik, Na Sotheron couthdeme thaim myss, pur no rik.
And I deme that he hath reseyvid some sithen, but that he kepith counsell.
Wherfor I deme that the seid attourne meneth not weel.
The north-eastern boundary of the plain of Athens is formed by the graceful pyramid of Pentelicus, which received its name from the deme of Pentele at its foot, but was far more commonly known as Brilessus in ancient times.
Thanne cam Pilatus with muche peple, Sedens pro tribunali, To se how doghtiliche Deeth sholde do, And deme hir botheres right.
Phalerum, a deme of Attica on the bay of Phalerum, I, 3; II, 60.
Laciads, citizens of the deme of Lacia, west of Athens, the home of Miltiades, II, 64.
There was another Alkibiadês, of the deme Phegus: but Andokidês in mentioning him afterwards (sect.
In the deme of Paiania there was a woman whose name was Phya, in height four cubits all but three fingers, 71 and also fair of form.
Every citizen was required to register himself, and to cause an enrollment of his property in the deme in which he resided.
As such, the mark and the gau were the germs of the future township and county, precisely as the Athenian naucrary and trittys were the rudiments of the Cleisthenean deme and local tribe.
Besides these powers of local self-government, which is the essence of a democratic system, eachdeme had its own temple and religious worship, and its own priest, also elected by the demotae.
They elected a treasurer, and provided for the assessment and collection of taxes, and for furnishing the quota of troops required of the deme for the service of the state.
They also elected thirty dicasts or judges, who tried all causes arising in the deme where the amount involved fell below a certain sum.
In point of time it was earlier than the institution of the Attic deme by Cleisthenes; but the two were quite different in their relations to the government.
To accomplish this result it was only necessary to invent a deme or township, circumscribed with boundaries, to christen it with a name, and organize the people therein as a body politic.
The naucrary was the incipient deme or township which, when the idea of a territorial basis was fully developed, was to become the foundation of the second great plan of government.
When political society was instituted on the basis of the deme or township, and all the residents of the deme became a body politic, irrespective of their gens or tribe, the coalescence became complete.
He would be enrolled in the deme of his residence, which enrollment was the evidence of his citizenship; would vote and be taxed in his deme; and from it be called into the military service.
The new element which gave stability and order to the state was the demeor township, with its complete autonomy, and local self-government.
Alyngton; neverthelesse I deme it is nott for yow.
I heer ffrom yowe, I deme that Bysshop the atornye shall, iff I conclude with hym on yowr behalve, paye in mony or otherwyse, to whom that ye woll assynge heer.
Item, I thynke that she is made sywer i now in astate in the londe, and that off ryght I deme they shall make noone obstacles at my wryghtyng, ffor I hadde never none astate in the londe, ner I wolde nott that I had hadde.
Sende me worde ther off; it wer well doo, that ye wer a lytell sewrer off yowr pardon than ye be: avyse you, I deme ye woll her afftr ellys repent yow.
Item, ye make yow sywerer than I deme yow bee, for I deme that her frendes wyll nott be content with Bedyngfeldes sywerte, nor yowres.
He hathe befor thys be wont to tell me none untrowthe; and what I shall deme in thys mater, I can not sey, for me thynkyth if more then an Cli.
I deme in yow that ye thynke par case to bye a fayre harneys here for x.
I deme thys mater will ocopy lenger leyser than ye deme for.
Any member of the deme of Laciadae could go every day to Cimon's house and there receive a reasonable provision; while his estate was guarded by no fences, so that any one who liked might help himself to the fruit from it.
Thei schulen make ghou withouten the synagogis; but the our cometh, that ech man that sleeth ghou deme that he doith seruyse to God.
A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
The deme of Acharnae was largely inhabited by charcoal-burners, who supplied the city with fuel.
It is Dicaeopolis of the Chollidan Deme who calls you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
