demountv.
/diːˈmaʊnt/, U.S. /ˌdiˈmaʊnt/, Scottish English /diˈmʌʊnt/ Originally Scottish.
1. † b. intransitive. To come down from a height or an elevated place; to descend. Cf. dismount v. 3. Obsolete. rare.
a. intransitive. = dismount v. 2a. rare after early 17th cent.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > dismount
lighteOE
alightOE
falla1300
avoid1485
demountc1540
elight1542
descend1548
avale1590
dismount1594
alighten1600
unlight1623
unhorse1633
unmount1655
to get off1688
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iv. xv. 104 All horsmen..demont haistelie fra þare horss.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. (1821) I. 191 Gregour incontinent demontit of his hors.
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 109 The Knights (demounting off their Steedes in a faire courtelage) were with a paire of torches lighted into the hall.
2000 Manly (Austral.) Daily (Nexis) 17 June Like jockeys changing a horse, the focus puller demounts from the moveable camera platform and the cameraman hops on.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)]
styc825
astyc975
alightOE
to fall adownOE
hieldc1275
downcomea1300
sink?a1300
avalec1374
to go downa1375
to come downc1380
dipc1390
descenda1393
clinea1400
declinea1400
downc1400
inclinec1400
vailc1400
fallc1440
devall1477
condescendc1485
to get down1567
lower1575
dismount1579
to fall down1632
down?1701
demount1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. vi. 73 Beautiful invention; mounting heavenward, so beautifully... Well if it do not, Pilâtre-like, explode; and demount all the more tragically.
2.
a. transitive. = dismount v. 6. Also (in early use) intransitive: †to be dismountable (obsolete).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > mount on carriage > dismount or unlimber
dismount1544
demount1577
unstock1598
unbrack1611
unlimber1760
1577 Edinb. Test. V. 340 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Demont To Adam Diksones wyf ane coup of siluer quhilk montis be ane deuis & demontis.
1584 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 639 How far his Hienes munitioun houssis, ordinance, cairtis, and utheris preparationis of weir, ar demountit and decayit.
1921 Pop. Sci. Apr. 76 The entire outfit may be demounted from the truck and an ordinary truck body fitted on instead.
1998 P. E. Ceruzzi Hist. Mod. Computing ii. 56 There would be little or no need for an operator to mount and demount tapes as there was with other computers.
b. transitive. To dismantle, take apart, disassemble. Cf. dismount v. 7.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > separate into constituents [verb (transitive)] > take apart
to-lithec1000
unjoinc1400
joint1530
unpart1536
disjoin1579
disjoint1587
untruss?1605
untack1641
ravela1658
disartuate1660
to take apart1744
demount1756
disarticulate1808
dismount1859
disassemble1881
destructure1951
deconstruct1973
1756 G. Anderson Remonstr. against Lord Viscount Bolingbroke’s Philos. Relig. ix. 251 Until the machine is demounted and mounted in his view, he is not in a condition to determine whether it moves of itself.
1909 Motor Boating July 43/2 The dirty strainer section can be cleaned at leisure without demounting the device or necessitating a stop of the engine.
1958 New Scientist 24 Apr. 29/3 [The inflamed hydrogen] carried off the singularly impressive eyebrows of a scientist demounting the autoclave.
1998 Old-house Jrnl. Mar. 30/2 He designed this large reception hall around massive laminated wooden arches so that it could be demounted and relocated as the campus expanded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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