demersion

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English

Etymology

Latin demersio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diˈmɜː(ɹ)ʒən/

Noun

demersion (usually uncountable, plural demersions)

  1. The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
  2. The state of being overwhelmed in, or as if in, water.
    • 1692, John Ray, “The First Question Concerning the World’s Dissolution, Whether there be Any Thing in Nature that may Probably Cause or Argue a Future Dissolution? Three Probable Means propounded and Discussed.”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. , London: Samuel Smith, , →OCLC, page 360:
      his Sinking and Demerſion of Buildings into the Earth is a manifeſt Sign of their Antiquity, vvhich is ſo much the greater, by hovv much the deeper they are ſunk.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “demersion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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