As to what D E M N signifies, you will have to ask the Rev Wright.

As to what OED signifies? Oxford English Dictionary.

And you a Canadian!

I don't dare conjecture as to what the D E M N significance is, for fear of the Mudcat censors swooping down and banishing this thread as well. They made it clear (as quicksand) why they HAD to close the "Odd Etymologies" thread now, didn't they?