demean

Etymology 1

(1595) From de- + mean (“lowly, base, common”), from Middle English mene, aphetic variation of imene (“mean, base, common”), from Old English ġemǣne (“mean, common”). Compare English bemean.

verb

1. To debase; to lower; to degrade.
2. To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
3. To mortify.

Etymology 2

From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin mināre, from minārī (“to threaten”).

verb

1. (obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
2. (now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.

noun

1. (obsolete) Management; treatment.
2. (obsolete) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
   with grave demean and solemn vanity 1739, Gilbert West, A canto of the Fairy Queen (later called On the Abuse of Travelling)

Etymology 3

Variant of demesne.

noun

1. demesne.
2. resources; means.

Etymology 4

table de- + mean

verb

1. (statistics, transitive) To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set).
   Concerning FE estimation, it makes no difference whether you demean the data with unit-specific means computed on (balanced) T observations per unit, or with unit-specific means computed on (unbalanced) Tᵢ observations per unit. 2013, Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Katrin Golsch, Alexander W. Schmidt, Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys, page 177