The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dempster \Demp"ster\ (?; 215), Demster \Dem"ster\, n. [See Deemster.]
A deemster.
(O. Scots Law) An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of deemster English)
Wikipedia
Dempster can refer to:
People- Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, U.S. physicist who discovered the U uranium isotope
- Arthur P. Dempster, U.S. mathematician who, with Glenn Shafer, created the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence
- Barry Dempster, Canadian writer
- Carol Dempster, U.S. actress
- Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster, British writer and folklorist
- Dallas Dempster, Australian businessman
- Eric Dempster, New Zealand cricketer
- George Dempster (lawyer), Scottish lawyer and MP
- George Roby Dempster, U.S. businessman and politician, founder of Dempster Brothers, Inc.
- Graham Dempster, Australian rules football player
- Hugh Dempster, British actor
- Jocky Dempster, Scottish footballer
- John Dempster (Medal of Honor), U.S. Civil War sailor
- John Dempster (footballer), English footballer
- Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author and broadcaster
- Quentin Dempster, Australian journalist
- Roland T. Dempster, Liberian writer
- Ryan Dempster, Canadian-born U.S. baseball player
- Sean Dempster, Australian rules football player
- Stephen Dempster, Canadian religious scholar
- Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer
- Stuart Dempster, U.S. musician
- Thomas Dempster, Scottish scholar and historian
- Walter Dempster, Philippine drag queen and World War II sex slave
- Dempster Woodworth, Wisconsin state senator and physican
- Dempster, South Dakota
- Dempster Land District, Western Australia
- Dempster Highway, a Canadian roadway, in the Yukon and Northwest Territories
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Dempster Street, a major east-west artery north of Chicago, Illinois, part of which is part of U.S. Route 14
- Dempster (CTA Purple Line station), a Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit station in Evanston, Illinois
- Dempster-Skokie (CTA station), a Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit station in Skokie, Illinois
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Dempster Brothers, Inc., a Tennessee industrial firm
- Dempster Dumpmaster, a garbage-handling vehicle manufactured by the company
- Dempster Dumpster, a waste receptacle manufactured by the company
- Dempster's brand bread, a product of Canada Bread
Usage examples of "dempster".
Dempster, and my uncle Dr. Boswell, who happened to be now in London, supped with me at these Chambers.
Dempster having endeavoured to maintain that intrinsick merit OUGHT to make the only distinction amongst mankind.
I stepped briskly - not running, but not dawdling - in front of the Dempsters just as Percy threw, and the snowball hit Mrs.
I pined and wasted to some extent, and my mother was not so taken up with the Dempsters that she failed to dose me regularly with cod-liver oil.
Consequently, as they became, in a sense, charges of my family, my jobs for the Dempsters grew.
Some of the oddity and loneliness of the Dempsters was beginning to rub off on me.
She had shown also that she knew that I was as concerned about the Dempsters, perhaps, as herself.
It was Cece, with some of his crowd, and the Harper boys (who ought to have known better) who organized the shivaree when the Dempsters moved.
George Alcott, who owned the sawmill, offered Dempster a place as a bookkeeper and timekeeper at twelve dollars a week, which was not a bad wage for the work and in fact made the Dempsters slightly better off than they had been, for there was no church tithe expected out of it.
I soon found out that she knew nothing of what was going on in the world because the Dempsters took no newspaper.
She couldn't do anything for the Dempsters publicly, of course, but she sent you to look after them.
In spite of her appearance, and the mistrust of her I felt deep within me, she was a woman who could draw out confidences, and I heard myself rattling on about Deptford, and the Dempsters, and Paul's premature birth, though I did not tell all I knew of that.
Yes there we were The Dempsters, a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to the whole village of Deptford.
Dempster, of Yorkshire, they were considered so positive, that the aforenamed gentleman immediately came to terms, agreeing to give up the property to Lionel, provided, in consequence of the great improvements he had made, he was not come upon for arrears of income arising from it.
Dempster, this was the most demanding period of my life, for it was during this time I became involved with the Bollandists and found my way into the mainstream of the work that has given me endless delight and a limited, specialized reputation.