demean

To debase; to lower; to degrade.

It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.

To humble; to humiliate.

To mortify.

To manage; to conduct; to treat.

But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.

To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.

they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.

They answered […] that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.

Management; treatment.

Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad

Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.

‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’

with grave demean and solemn vanity