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Declaim (?), v. t. 1. To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
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2. To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly. [Obs.] “Declaims his cause.” South.
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Declaimant (?), n. A declaimer. [R.]
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Declaimer (?), n. One who declaims; an haranguer.
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Declamation (?), n. [L. declamatio, from declamare: cf. F. déclamation. See .] 1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.
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The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.
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2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
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3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
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Declamator (?), n. [L.] A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.
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Declamatory (?), a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F. déclamatoire.] 1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
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2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
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Declarable (?), a. Capable of being declared. Sir T. Browne.
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Declarant (?), n. [Cf. F. déclarant, p. pr. of déclarer.] (Law) One who declares. Abbott.
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Declaration (?), n. [F. déclaration, fr. L. declaratio, fr. declarare. See .] 1. The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
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2. That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.
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Declarations of mercy and love . . . in the Gospel. Tillotson.
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3. The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).
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In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace. Buckle.
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4. (Law) That part of the process or pleadings in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See , n., 3.
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Coloq. Declaration of Independence . (Amer. Hist.) See Declaration of Independence in the vocabulary. See also under . -- Coloq. Declaration of rights . (Eng. Hist) See Bill of rights, under . -- Coloq. Declaration of trust (Law), a paper subscribed by a grantee of property, acknowledging that he holds it in trust for the purposes and upon the terms set forth. Abbott.
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Declaration of Independence (?), n. (Amer. Hist.) The document promugated, July 4, 1776, by the leaders of the thirteen British Colonies in America that they have formed an independent country. See note below.
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The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People.

Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Declarative (?), a. [L. declarativus, fr. declarare: cf. F. déclaratif.] Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory. “Declarative laws.” Baker.
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The “vox populi,” so declarative on the same side. Swift.
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Declaratively, adv. By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration.
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The priest shall expiate it, that is, declaratively. Bates.
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Declarator (?), n. [L., an announcer.] (Scots Law) A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.
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Declaratorily (?), adv. In a declaratory manner.
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Declaratory (?), a. [Cf. F. déclaratoire.] Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature.
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Coloq. Declaratory act (Law), an act or statute which sets forth more clearly, and declares what is, the existing law.
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Declare (d�klâr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Declared (d�klârd); p. pr. & vb. n. Declaring.] [F. déclarer, from L. declarare; de + clarare to make clear, clarus, clear, bright. See .] 1. To make clear; to free from obscurity. [Obs.] “To declare this a little.” Boyle.
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2. To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
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This day I have begot whom I declare
My only Son. Milton.
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The heavens declare the glory of God. Ps. xix. 1.
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3. To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.
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I the Lord . . . declare things that are right. Isa. xlv. 19.
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4. (Com.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.
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Coloq. To declare off , to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce. -- Coloq. To declare one's self , to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.
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Declare, v. i. 1. To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.
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Like fawning courtiers, for success they wait,
And then come smiling, and declare for fate. Dryden.
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2. (Law) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.
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declared adj. 1. made known or openly avowed; as, their declared and their covert objectives; a declared liberal. Opposite of undeclared. [Narrower terms: avowed(prenominal), professed(prenominal)]
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2. stated as fact; explicitly stated.
Syn. -- stated.
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Declaredly (?), adv. Avowedly; explicitly.
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Declaredness, n. The state of being declared.
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Declarement (?), n. Declaration. [Obs.]
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Declarer (?), n. One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits. Udall.
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Declass (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Declassed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Declassing.] [Cf. F. déclasser.] To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class. North Am. Rev.
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déclassé (d�klăsā, d�kläsā) adj. [F. Cf. F. déclasser.] 1. reduced or fallen in status, social position, class or rank; fallen from a high status or rank to a lower one.
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2. of inferior grade, rank, status, or prestige.
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declassification n. reduction by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon.
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declassified adj. having a security classification removed so as to be open to public inspection; -- of documents or information.
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declassify v. to lift the restriction on publication [of documents] by reducing or eliminating the secrecy classification of. usually applied to government documents classified as secret
Syn. -- make available again.
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declaw v. t. to remove the claws from, -- used especially with a cat as an object.
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Declension (?), n. [Apparently corrupted fr. F. déclinaison, fr. L. declinatio, fr. declinare. See , and cf. .] 1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
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The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet.
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2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
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Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts
To base declension. Shak.
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3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
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4. (Gram.) (a) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. (b) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. (c) Rehearsing a word as declined.
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☞ The nominative was held to be the primary and original form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings (hence called casus, cases, or fallings) from the nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from the noun's upright form, was called a declension. Harris.
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Coloq. Declension of the needle , declination of the needle.
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Declensional (?), a. Belonging to declension.
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Declensional and syntactical forms. M. Arnold.
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Declinable (?), a. [Cf. F. déclinable. See .] Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
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Declinal (?), a. Declining; sloping.
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Declinate (?), a. [L. declinatus, p. p. of declinare. See .] Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.
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Declination (?), n. [L. declinatio a bending aside, an avoiding: cf. F. déclination a decadence. See .] 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
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2. The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. “The declination of monarchy.” Bacon.
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Summer . . . is not looked on as a time
Of declination or decay. Waller.
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3. The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
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The declination of atoms in their descent. Bentley.
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Every declination and violation of the rules. South.
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4. The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
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The queen's declination from marriage. Stow.
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5. (Astron.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
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6. (Dialing) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
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7. (Gram.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See , v. t., 4.
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Coloq. Angle of declination , the angle made by a descending line, or plane, with a horizontal plane. -- Coloq. Circle of declination , a circle parallel to the celestial equator. -- Coloq. Declination compass (Physics), a compass arranged for finding the declination of the magnetic needle. -- Coloq. Declination of the compass or Coloq. Declination of the needle , the horizontal angle which the magnetic needle makes with the true north-and-south line.
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Declinator (?), n. [Cf. F. déclinateur. See .] 1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
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2. A dissentient. [R.] Bp. Hacket.
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Declinatory (?; 277), a. [LL. declinatorius, fr. L. declinare: cf. F. déclinatoire.] Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. Blackstone.
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Coloq. Declinatory plea (O. Eng. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction; -- now abolished.
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Declinature (?; 135), n. The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
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Decline (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Declined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Declining.] [OE. declinen to bend down, lower, sink, decline (a noun), F. décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect (a part of speech), avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. See , v. i.] 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. “With declining head.” Shak.
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He . . . would decline even to the lowest of his family. Lady Hutchinson.
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Disdaining to decline,
Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron.
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The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly. Sir W. Scott.
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2. To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
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That empire must decline
Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. Waller.
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And presume to know . . .
Who thrives, and who declines. Shak.
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3. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
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Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 157.
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4. To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
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Decline, v. t. 1. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
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In melancholy deep, with head declined. Thomson.
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And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste
His weary wagon to the western vale. Spenser.
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2. To cause to decrease or diminish. [Obs.] “You have declined his means.” Beau. & Fl.
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He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it. Burton.
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3. To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
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Could I
Decline this dreadful hour? Massinger.
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4. (Gram.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
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☞ Now restricted to such words as have case inflections; but formerly it was applied both to declension and conjugation.
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After the first declining of a noun and a verb. Ascham.
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5. To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. [R.] Shak.
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Decline (?), n. [F. déclin. See , v. i.] 1. A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
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Their fathers lived in the decline of literature. Swift.
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2. (Med.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
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3. A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline. Dunglison.

Syn. -- , , . Decline marks the first stage in a downward progress; decay indicates the second stage, and denotes a tendency to ultimate destruction; consumption marks a steady decay from an internal exhaustion of strength. The health may experience a decline from various causes at any period of life; it is naturally subject to decay with the advance of old age; consumption may take place at almost any period of life, from disease which wears out the constitution. In popular language decline is often used as synonymous with consumption. By a gradual decline, states and communities lose their strength and vigor; by progressive decay, they are stripped of their honor, stability, and greatness; by a consumption of their resources and vital energy, they are led rapidly on to a completion of their existence.
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Declined (?), a. Declinate.
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Decliner (?), n. He who declines or rejects.
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A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
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declining adj. 1. decreasing; as, steadily declining incomes.
Syn. -- down(prenominal).
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2. going from better to worse.
Syn. -- deteriorating, failing, regressing, retrograde, retrogressive.
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3. becoming less or smaller; as, declining powers of body and mind. Opposite of increasing.
Syn. -- eroding.
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4. drawing to an end; waning; as, his declining years. [prenominal]
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Declinometer (?), n. [Decline + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
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Declinous (?), a. Declinate.

{ Declivitous (?), Declivous (?), } a. Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.
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Declivity (?), n.; pl. Declivities (#). [L. declivitas, fr. declivis sloping, downhill; de + clivus a slope, a hill; akin to clinare to incline: cf. F. déclivité. See .] 1. Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
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2. A descending surface; a sloping place.
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Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.
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declutch v. i. & t. to disengage the clutch of a car.
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Decoct (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decocted; p. pr. & vb. n. Decocting.] [L. decoctus, p. p. of decoquere to boil down; de- + coquere to cook, boil. See to decoct.] 1. To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
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2. To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.
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3. To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling. [R.] “Decoct their cold blood.” Shak.
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Decoctible (?), a. Capable of being boiled or digested.
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Decoction (?), n. [F. décoction, L. decoctio.] 1. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
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In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon.
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2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
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If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the decoction of the plant. Arbuthnot.
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In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping. Latham.
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Decocture (?; 135), n. A decoction. [R.]
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decode v. t. to convert from a coded form into the original form; -- of communications. Inverse of encode.
Syn. -- decrypt, decipher[WE1].
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Decoherer (dēk�hērẽr), n. [Pref. de- + coherer.] (Elec.) A device for restoring a coherer to its normal condition after it has been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.
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decollate (d�kŏllāt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decollated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decollating.] [L. decollatus, p. p. of decollare to behead; de- + collum neck.] To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
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The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. Burke.
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Decollated (?), a. (Zoöl.) Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
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Decollation (?), n. [L. decollatio: cf. F. décollation.] 1. The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
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2. A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.
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Décolletage (dāk�l'tȧzh), n. [F. See .] (Costume) 1. The upper border or part of a low-cut (i.e., décolleté) dress.
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2. the exposed upper parts of the breasts of a woman wearing a low-cut dress.
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Décolleté (d�kŏll�t�), a. [F., p. p. of décolleter to bare the neck and shoulders; dé- + collet collar, fr. L. collum neck.] 1. Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
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2. Wearing a décolleté gown.
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Decolling (?), n. Beheading. [R.]
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By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king. Parliamentary History (1648).
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decolonisation n. same as . [mostly British]
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decolonization n. 1. the action of changing from colonial to independent status.
Syn. -- decolonisation.
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decolonize v. t. to grant independence to (a former colony). [Also spelled decolonise.]
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decolonize v. i. to release one's colonies and free them to become independednt nations; -- of nations. [Also spelled decolonise.]
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Decolor (?), v. t. [Cf. F. décolorer, L. decolorare. Cf. .] To deprive of color; to bleach.
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Decolorant (?), n. [Cf. F. décolorant, p. pr.] A substance which removes color, or bleaches.
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Decolorate (?), a. [L. decoloratus, p. p. of decolorare.] Deprived of color.
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Decolorate (?), v. t. To decolor.
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