verb

• (intransitive)
  "I demur to that statement."
• (intransitive)
  "He that demurreth in Law confeſſeth all ſuch matters of fact as are well and ſufficiently pleaded."
• (intransitive)
• (intransitive)
  "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."

noun

• (obsolete)
  "[G]ood People, living vvithin the Limits of true and lavvful Matrimony, ſhall not by Malice or ill VVill, be ſo long detained and interrupted from their Right, as in times paſt they have been: Neither unjuſt Matrymony ſhall have his unjuſt and inceſtuous demoure and continuance, as by delayes to Rome it is vvont to have."
• (obsolete)
  "[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, […]"
• (obsolete)
  "VVe ſavv this tovvn only in tranſitu, but it merited a little demurr."
• (obsolete)
  "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."