demur

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.

   “I demur to that statement.”

2. fiil To submit a demurrer (“motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).

   “He that demurreth in Law confeſſeth all ſuch matters of fact as are well and ſufficiently pleaded.”

3. fiil To endure, to last.
4. fiil To linger, to tarry.

   “The Eele is here, and in this hollow cave / You'll finde, if that our looks on it demurre, / A great wast in the bottome of his furre.”

5. fiil To remain, to stay.
6. fiil To suspend judgment or proceedings because of a difficulty or doubt; to put off the conclusion or determination of a matter; to delay, to hesitate, to pause.

   “The doore of grace turnes upon ſmooth hinges vvide opening to ſend out, but ſoon ſhutting to recall the precious offers of mercy to a nation:[…]. This is all vve get by demurring in Gods ſervice.”

7. fiil To have doubts; to be doubtful.
8. fiil Followed by upon: to be captivated or fixated; to dwell on, to linger.
9. fiil To object or take exception to (something).

   “I demur the inference from these facts that Homer must have lived at some far later period, when he could have seen such works. Even if he had never seen any representations of life, his imagination might have conceived them.”

10. fiil To cause delay to (someone or something); to put off.

    “I ask'd the Lavvyer; He demands a Fee, / And then demurres me vvith a vaine delay: […]”

11. fiil To have doubts or hesitate about (something).
12. isim An act of objecting or taking exception; a scruple; also, an exception taken or objection to something.

    “If publique Aſſemblies of Divines cannot agree upon a right vvay, private Conventicles of illeterate men, vvill ſoon finde a vvrong. Bivious demurres breed devious reſolutions. Paſſengers to heaven are in haſte, and vvill vvalk one vvay or other.”

13. isim An act of continuing; a continuance.
14. isim An act of lingering or tarrying.

    “[A]lbeit his Highneſs had cauſe, as the ſame vvrote, to marvel of your long demor, and lack of expedition of one or other of the things committed to your charge; yet did his Highneſs right vvell perſuade unto himſelf the default not to be in you, but in ſome other cauſe, […]”

15. isim An act of remaining or staying; a residence, a stay.

    “VVe ſavv this tovvn only in tranſitu, but it merited a little demurr.”

16. isim A state of having doubts; a hesitation, a pause.

    “The King told me, […] That I ſhould have the Character of Ambaſſador Extraordinary, and the ſame Allovvance I ſhou'd have had in Spain: Upon this Offer I made no Demurr, but immediately accepted it, and ſo my Ambaſſy vvas declar'd in May 1674.”

17. isim Synonym of demurrer (“a motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).

    “[W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.”