1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak. 2. To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. I d...