Deceit – Deductively

Deceit

DECE'IT,

1. Literally, a catching or ensnaring. Hence, the misleading of a person; the leading of another person to believe what is false, or not to believe what is true, and thus to ensnare him; fraud; fallacy; cheat; any declaration, artifice or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit Job 27:4.

2. Stratagem; artifice; device intended to mislead.

They imagine deceits all the day long. Psalms 38:12.

3. In scripture, that which is obtained by guile, fraud or oppression.

Their houses are full of deceit Jeremiah 5:27. Zeph. I.

4. In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, shift, covin, or underhand practice, used to defraud another.

Deceitful

DECE'ITFUL, adjective

1. Tending to mislead, deceive or ensnare; as deceitful words; deceitful practices.

Favor is deceitful Proverbs 31:30.

2. Full of deceit; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; as a deceitful man.

Deceitfully

DECE'ITFULLY, adverb In a deceitful manner; fraudulently; with deceit; in a manner or with a view to deceive.

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully Genesis 34:13.

Deceitfulness

DECE'ITFULNESS, noun

1. Tendency to mislead or deceive; as the deceitfulness of sin.

2. The quality of being fraudulent; as the deceitfulness of a man's practices.

3. The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.

Deceitless

DECE'ITLESS, adjective Free from deceit.

Deceivable

DECE'IVABLE, adjective

1. Subject to deceit or imposition; capable of being misled or entrapped; exposed to imposture; as, young persons are very deceivable

2. Subject or apt to produce error or deception; deceitful.

Fair promises often prove deceivable

Deceivableness

DECE'IVABLENESS, noun

1. Liableness to be deceived.

2. Liableness to deceive.

The deceivableness of unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:10.

Deceive

DECE'IVE, verb transitive [L to take asid, to ensnare.]

1. To mislead the mind; to cause to err; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose on; to delude.

Take heed that no man deceive you. Matthew 24:4.

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. 1 John 1:1.

2. To beguile; to cheat.

Your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times.

3. To cut off from expectation; to frustrate or disappoint; as, his hopes were deceived.

4. To take from; to rob.

Plant fruit trees in large borders, and set therein fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees.

Deceived

DECE'IVED, participle passive Misled; led into error; beguiled; cheated; deluded.

Deceiver

DECE'IVER, noun One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.

I shall seem to my father as a deceiver Genesis 27:12.

Deceiving

DECE'IVING, participle present tense Misleading; ensnaring; beguiling; cheating.

December

DECEM'BER, noun [Latin december from decem, ten; this being the tenth month among the early Romans, who began the year in March.]

The last month in the year, in which the sun enters the tropic of Capricorn, and makes the winter solstice.

Decemdentate

DECEMDEN'TATE, adjective [Latin decem, ten, and dentatus, toothed.] Having ten points or teeth.

Decemfid

DEC'EMFID, adjective [Latin decem, ten, and fido, to divide.]

Ten-cleft; divided into ten parts; having ten divisions.

Decemlocular

DECEMLOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin decem, ten, and loculus, a little bag or cell.] Having ten cells for seeds.

Decempedal

DEC'EMPEDAL, adjective [Latin decem, ten, and pes, a foot.] Ten feet in length.

Decemvir

DEC'EMVIR, noun [Latin decem, ten, and vir, a man.] One of ten magistrates, who had absolute authority in ancient Rome.

Decemviral

DECEM'VIRAL, adjective Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.

Decemvirate

DECEM'VIRATE, noun

1. The office or term of office of the decemvirs or ten magistrates in Rome, who had absolute authority for two years.

2. A body of ten men in authority.

Decency

DE'CENCY, noun [Latin to be fit or becoming; Gr. to be good, or fit for.]

1. That which is fir, suitable or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form, in social intercourse, in actions or discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony. It has a special reference to behavior; as decency of conduct; decency of worship. But it is used also in reference to speech; as, he discoursed with decency

Those thousand decencies, that daily flow

From all her words and actions.

2. Suitableness to character; propriety.

3. Propriety in speech; modesty; opposed to ribaldry, or obscenity.

Want of decency is want of sense.

It may be also used for propriety of speech, opposed to rudeness, or disrespectful language; and for propriety in dress, opposed to raggedness, exposure of nakedness, filthiness, etc.

Decennary

DEC'ENNARY, noun [Latin from decem, ten, and annus, a year.]

1. A period of years.

2. A tithing consisting of ten freeholders and their families.

Decennial

DECEN'NIAL, adjective [Latin as above.] Continuing for ten years; consisting of ten years; or happening every ten years; as a decennial period; decennial games.

Decennoval

DEC'ENNOVAL, adjective [Latin decem, ten, and novem, nine.] Pertaining to the number nineteen; designating a period or circle of nineteen years.

Decennovary

DECEN'NOVARY, adjective [Latin decem, ten, and novem, nine.] Pertaining to the number nineteen; designating a period or circle of nineteen years.

Decent

DE'CENT, adjective [Latin decens; Fr. decent ]

1. Becoming; fit; suitable, in words, behavior, dress and ceremony; as decent language; decent conduct or actions; decent ornaments or dress.

2. Comely; not gaudy or ostentatious.

A sable stole of Cyprus lawn

O'er the decent shoulders drawn.

3. Not immodest.

4. In popular language, moderate, but competent; not large; as a decent fortune. So a decent person is one not highly accomplished, nor offensively rude.

DE'CENTLY, adverb

1. In a decent or becoming manner; with propriety of behavior or speech.

2. Without immodesty.

Past hope of safety, 'twas his latest care,

Like falling Caesar, decently to die.

Decentness

DE'CENTNESS, noun Decency.

Deceptibility

DECEPTIBIL'ITY, noun The quality or state of being capable or liable to be deceived.

Deceptible

DECEP'TIBLE, adjective That may be deceived.

Deception

DECEP'TION, noun

1. The act of deceiving or misleading.

All deception is a misapplication of the established signs used to communicate thoughts.

2. The state of being deceived or misled. Incautious and inexperienced youth is peculiarly exposed to deception

3. Artifice practiced; cheat; as, a scheme is alla deception

Deceptious

DECEP'TIOUS, adjective Tending to deceive; deceitful.

Deceptive

DECEP'TIVE, adjective Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress false opinions; as a deceptive countenance or appearance.

Deceptory

DECEP'TORY, adjective Tending to deceive; containing qualities or means adapted to mislead.

Decerpt

DECERPT, adjective Cropped.

Decerption

DECERP'TION, noun [Latin to pluck off.] A pulling or plucking off; a cropping.

Decertation

DECERTA'TION, noun [Latin To strive.] Strife; contest for mastery.

Decession

DECES'SION, noun [Latin to pass.] Departure.

Decharm

DECH'ARM, verb transitive To remove a spell or enchantment; to disenchant.

Decharmed

DECH'ARMED, participle passive Disenchanted.

Decharming

DECH'ARMING, participle present tense Removing a spell.

Dechristianize

DECHRIS'TIANIZE, verb transitive To turn from christianity; to banish christian belief and principles from.

Decidable

DECI'DABLE, adjective That may be decided.

DECI'DE, verb transitive [Latin To strike, to cut.] Literally, to cut off, and thus to end. Hence,

1. To end; to determine, as a controversy, by verdict of a jury, or by a judgement of court. We say, the court or the jury decided the cause in favor of the plaintiff, or of the defendant.

2. To end or determine, as a dispute or quarrel.

3. To end or determine a combat or battle; as, a body of reserve, brought to the charge, decided the contest.

4. To determine; to fix the event of.

The fate of the bill is decided.

5. In general, to end; to terminate.

Decide

DECI'DE, verb intransitive To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion.

We cannot decide how far resistance is lawful or practicable.

The court decided in favor of the defendant.

Decided

DECI'DED, participle passive Determined; ended; concluded.

DECI'DED, adjective That implies decision; clear; unequivocal; that puts an end to doubt.

I find much cause to reproach myself, that I have lived so long, and have given no decided and public proofs of my being a christian. P. Henry, Wirt's Sketches.

Decidedly

DECI'DEDLY, adverb In a decided or determined manner; clearly; indisputable; in a manner to preclude doubt.

Decidence

DECI'DENCE, noun A falling off.

Decider

DECI'DER, noun One who determines a cause or contest.

Deciding

DECI'DING, participle present tense Determing; ending; concluding.

Deciduous

DECID'UOUS, adjective [Latin to fall.] Falling; not perennial or permanent. In botany, a deciduous leaf is one which falls in autumn; a deciduous calyx, is that which falls after the corol opens; distinguished from permanent.

Deciduousness

DECID'UOUSNESS, noun The quality of falling once a year.

Decigram

DEC'IGRAM, noun A French weight of one tenth of a gram.

Decil

DE'CIL, noun An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac.

Deciliter

DEC'ILITER, noun A French measure of capacity equal to one tenth of a liter.

DEC'IMAL, adjective [Latin decimus, tenth, from decem, ten.]

1. Numbered by ten; as decimal progression.

2. Increasing or diminishing by ten; as decimal numbers; decimal arithmetic; decimal fractions.

3. Tenth; as a decimal part.

Decimally

DEC'IMALLY, adverb By tens; by means of decimals.

Decimate

DEC'IMATE, verb transitive [Latin decimo, from decem, ten.]

1. To tithe; to take the tenth part.

2. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man; a practice in armies, for punishing mutinous or unfaithful troops.

3. To take every tenth.

Decimation

DECIMA'TION, noun

1. A tithing; a selection of every tenth by lot.

2. The selecting by lot for punishment every tenth man, in a company or regiment, etc.

Decimator

DEC'IMATOR, noun One who selects every tenth man, in a company or regiment, etc.

Decimeter

DECIM'ETER, noun A French measure of length equal to the tenth part of a meter, or 3 inches and 93710 decimals.

Decimo-Sexto

DECIMO-SEXTO, noun A book is in decimo-sexto when a sheet is folded into sixteen leaves.

Decipher

DECI'PHER, verb transitive

1. To find the alphabet of a cipher; to explain what is written in ciphers, by finding what letter each character or mark represents; as, to decipher a letter written in ciphers.

2. To unfold; to unravel what is intricate; to explain what is obscure or difficult to be understood; as, to decipher an ambiguous speech, or an ancient manuscript or inscription.

3. To write out; to mark down in characters.

4. To stamp; to mark; to characterize.

Deciphered

DECI'PHERED, participle passive Explained; unraveled; marked.

Decipherer

DECI'PHERER, noun One who explains what is written in ciphers.

Deciphering

DECI'PHERING, participle present tense Explaining; detecting the letters represented by ciphers; unfolding; marking.

Decision

DECIS'ION, noun

1. Determination, as of a question or doubt; final judgment or opinion, in a case which has been under deliberation or discussion; as the decision of the Supreme Court. He has considered the circumstances of the case and come to a decision

2. Determination of a contest or event; end of a struggle; as the decision of a battle by arms.

3. In Scotland, a narrative or report of the proceedings of the Court of Sessions.

4. Report of the opinions and determinations of any tribunal. We say, read the decisions of the Court of King's Bench.

5. Act of separation; devision.

Decisive

DECI'SIVE, adjective

1. Having the power or quality of determining a question, doubt, or any subject of deliberation; final; conclusive; putting an end to controversy; as, the opinion of the court is decisive of the question.

2. Having the power of determining a contest or event; as, the victory of the allies was decisive

Decisively

DECI'SIVELY, adverb In a conclusive manner; in a manner to end deliberation, controversy, doubt or contest.

Decisiveness

DECI'SIVENESS, noun

1. The power of an argument or of evidence to terminate a difference or doubt; conclusiveness.

2. The power of an event to put an end to a contest.

Decisory

DECI'SORY, adjective Able to decide or determine.

Deck

DECK, verb transitive

1. Primarily, to cover; to overspread; to put on. Hence,

2. To clothe; to dress the person; but usually, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.

The dew with spangles decked the ground.

3. To furnish with a deck as a vessel.

DECK, noun

1. The covering of a ship, which constitutes a floor, made of timbers and planks. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. A flush deck is a continued floor from stem to stern, on one line.

2. A pack of cards piled regularly on each other.

Decked

DECK'ED, participle passive Covered; adorned; furnished with a deck.

Decker

DECK'ER, noun

1. One who decks or adorns; a coverer; as a table-decker.

2. Of a ship, we say, she is a two-decker or a three-decker, that is, she has two decks or three decks.

Decking

DECK'ING, participle present tense Covering; arraying; adorning.

DECK'ING, noun Ornament; embellishment.

Declaim

DECLA'IM, verb intransitive [Latin to cry out.]

1. To speak a set oration in public; to speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech, or oration; as, the students declaim twice a week.

2. To harangue; to speak loudly or earnestly, to a public body or assembly, with a view to convince their minds or move their passions.

DECLA'IM, verb transitive

1. To speak in public.

2. To speak in favor of; to advocate.

Declaimant

DECLA'IMANT or DECLA'IMER, noun

1. One who declaims; a speaker in public; one who attempts to convince by a harangue.

2. One who speaks clamorously.

Declaiming

DECLA'IMING, participle present tense Speaking rhetorically; haranguing.

DECLA'IMING, noun A harangue.

Declamation

DECLAMA'TION, noun

1. A speech made in public, in the tone and manner of an oration; a discourse addressed to the reason or to the passions; a set speech; a harangue. This word is applied especially to the public speaking and speeches of students in colleges, practiced for exercises in oratory. It is applies also to public speaking in the legislature, and in the pulpit. Very often it is used for a noisy harangue, without solid sense or argument; as, mere declamation; empty declamation

2. A piece spoken in public, or intended for the public.

Declamator

DECLAMA'TOR, noun A declaimer.

Declamatory

DECLAM'ATORY, adjective

1. Relating to the practice of declaiming; pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as a declamatory theme.

2. Appealing to the passions; noisy; rhetorical without solid sense or argument; as a declamatory way or style.

Declaration

DECLARA'TION, noun

1. An affirmation; an open expression of facts or opinions; verbal utterance; as, he declared his sentiments, and I rely on his declaration

2. Expression of facts, opinions, promises, predictions, etc., in writings; records or reports of what has been declared or uttered.

The scriptures abound in declarations of mercy to penitent sinners.

3. Publication; manifestation; as the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai. Esther 10:2.

4. A public annunciation; proclamation; as the declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

5. In law, that part of the process or pleadings in which the plaintiff sets forth at large his cause of complaint; the narration or count.

Declarative

DECLAR'ATIVE, adjective

1. Making declaration; explanatory; making show or manifestation; as, the name of a thing may be declarative of its form or nature.

2. Making proclamation, or publication.

Declaratorily

DECLAR'ATORILY, adverb By declaration, or exhibition.

Declaratory

DECLAR'ATORY, adjective Making declaration, clear manifestation, or exhibition; expressive; as, this clause is declaratory of the will of the legislature. The declaratory part of a law, is that which sets forth and defines what is right and what is wrong. A declaratory act, is an act or statute which sets forth more clearly and explains the intention of the legislature in a former act.

Declare

DECLA'RE, verb transitive [Latin to make clear.]

1. To clear; to free from obscurity; to make plain.

2. To make known; to tell explicitly; to manifest or communicate plainly to others by words.

I will declare what he hath done for my soul. Psalms 66:16.

3. To make known; to show to the eye or to the understanding; to exhibit; to manifest by other means than words.

The heavens declare the glory of God. Psalms 19:1.

4. To publish; to proclaim.

Declare his glory among the heathen. 1 Chronicles 16:24.

Declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. Acts 15:4.

5. To assert; to affirm; as, he declares the story to be false.

To declare one's self, to throw off reserve and avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

DECLA'RE, verb intransitive

1. To make a declaration; to proclaim or avow some opinion or resolution in favor or in opposition; to make known explicitly some determination; with for or against; as, the prince declared for the allies; the allied powers declared against France.

Like fawning courtiers, for success they wait;

And then come smiling, and declare for fate.

2. In law, to recite the causes of complaint against the defendant; as, the plaintiff declares in debt or trespass.

3. To show or manifest the issue or event; to decide in favor of; as, victory had not declared for either party.

Declared

DECLA'RED, participle passive Made known; told explicitly; avowed; exhibited; manifested; published; proclaimed; recited.

Declaredly

DECLA'REDLY, adverb Avowedly; explicitly.

Declarer

DECLA'RER, noun One who makes known or publishes; that which exhibits.

Declaring

DECLA'RING, participle present tense Making known by words or by other means; manifesting; publishing; affirming; reciting the cause of complaint.

DECLA'RING, noun Declaration; proclamation.

Declatable

DECLA'TABLE, adjective That may be declared, or proved.

Declension

DECLEN'SION, noun

1. Literally, a leaning back or down; hence, a falling or declining towards a worse state; a tendency towards a less degree of excellence or perfection. The declension of a state is manifested by corruption of morals. We speak of the declension of virtue, of manners, of taste, of the sciences, of the fine arts, and sometimes of life or years; but in the latter application, decline is more generally used.

2. Declination; a declining; descent; slope; as the declension of the shore towards the sea.

3. In grammar, inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns; the declining, deviation or leaning of the termination of a word from the termination of the nomitive case; change of termination to form the oblique cases. Thus from rex in the nominative case, are formed regis in the genitive, regi in the dative, regem in the accusative, and rege in the ablative.

Declinable

DECLI'NABLE, adjective That may be declined; changing its termination in the oblique cases; as a declinable noun.

Declinate

DEC'LINATE, adjective In botany, bending or bent downwards, in a curve; declining.

Declination

DECLINA'TION, noun

1. A leaning; the act of bending down; as a declination of the head.

2. A declining, or falling into a worse state; change from a better to a worse condition; decay; deterioration; gradual failure or diminution of strength, soundness, vigor or excellence.

3. A deviation from a right line, in a literal sense; oblique motion; as the declination of a descending body.

4. Deviation from rectitude in behavior or morals; obliquity of conduct; as a declination from the path of integrity.

5. In astronomy, a variation from a fixed point or line. The distance of any celestial object from the equinoctial line, or equator, either northward or southward.

6. declination of the compass or needle, is the variation of the needle from the true meridian of a place.

7. In dialing, the declination of a wall or plane, is an arch of the horizon, contained between the plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, if you reckon from the north or south.

8. In grammar, declension; or the inflection of a noun through its various terminations.

Declinator

DECLINA'TOR, noun An instrument for taking the declination, or inclination of a plane; an instrument in dialling.

Declinatory plea, in law, a plea before trial or conviction, intended to show that the party was not liable to the penalty of the law, or was specially exempted from the jurisdiction of the court. The plea of benefit of clergy is a declinatory plea.

Declinatory

DECLIN'ATORY, noun An instrument for taking the declination, or inclination of a plane; an instrument in dialling.

Declinatory plea, in law, a plea before trial or conviction, intended to show that the party was not liable to the penalty of the law, or was specially exempted from the jurisdiction of the court. The plea of benefit of clergy is a declinatory plea.

Decline

DECLI'NE, verb intransitive [Latin to lean.]

1. To lean downward; as, the head declines towards the earth.

2. To lean from a right line; to deviate; in a literal sense.

3. To lean or deviate from rectitude, in a moral sense; to leave the path of truth or justice, or the course prescribed.

Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. Psalms 119:157.

4. To fall; to tend or draw towards the close; as, the day declines.

5. To avoid or shun; to refuse; not to comply; not to do; as, he declined to take any part in the concern.

6. To fall; to fail; to sink; to decay; to be impaired; to tend to a less perfect state; as, the vigor of youth declines in age; health declines; virtue declines; religion declines; national credit and prosperity decline under a corrupt administration.

7. To sink; to diminish; to fall in value; as, the prices of land and goods decline at the close of a war.

DECLI'NE, verb transitive

1. To bend downward; to bring down.

In melancholy deep, with head declined.

2. To bend to one side; to move from a fixed point or right line.

3. To shun or avoid; to refuse; not to engage in; to be cautious not to do or interfere; not to accept or comply with; as, he declined the contest; he declined the offer; he declined the business or pursuit.

4. To inflect; to change the termination of a word, for forming the oblique cases; as, Dominus, Domini, Domino, Dominum, Domine.

DECLI'NE, noun Literally, a leaning from; hence, a falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; as the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion; the decline of revenues; the decline of agriculture, commerce or manufactures; the decline of learning.

Declined

DECLI'NED, participle passive Bent downward or from; inflected.

Declining

DECLI'NING, participle present tense Leaning; deviating; falling; failing; decaying; tending to a worse state; avoiding; refusing; inflecting.

Declivitous

DECLIV'ITOUS, adjective Gradually descending; not precipitous; sloping.

Declivity

DECLIV'ITY, noun [Latin sloping.] Declination from a horizontal line; descent of land; inclination downward; a slope; a gradual descent of the earth, of a rock or other thing: chiefly used of the earth, and opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity and considered as ascending, an acclivity.

Declivous

DECLI'VOUS,

DECOCT', verb transitive [Latin to boil.]

1. To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water.

2. To digest by the heat of the stomach; to prepare as food for nourishing the body.

3. To boil in water, for extracting the principles or virtues of a substance.

4. To boil up to a consistence; to invigorate.

Decoctible

DECOCT'IBLE, adjective That may be boiled or digested.

Decoction

DECOC'TION, noun

1. The act of boiling a substance in water, for extracting its virtues.

2. The liquor in which a substance has been boiled; water impregnated with the principles of any animal or vegetable substance boiled in it; as a weak or a strong decoction of Peruvian bark.

Decoctive

DECOCT'IVE, adjective That may be easily decocted.

Decocture

DECOCT'URE, noun A substance drawn by decoction.

Decollate

DE'COLLATE, verb transitive To behead.

Decollated

DE'COLLATED, participle passive Beheaded.

Decollation

DECOLLA'TION, noun [Latin to behead; the neck.] The act of beheading; the act of cutting off the neck of an animal, and severing the head from the body. It is especially used of St. John the Baptist, and of a painting which represents his beheading.

Decoloration

DECOLORA'TION, noun Absence of color.

Decomplex

DE'COMPLEX, adjective Compounded of complex ideas.

Decomposable

DECOMPO'SABLE, adjective That may be decomposed; capable of being resolved into its constituent elements.

Decompose

DECOMPO'SE, verb transitive To separate the constituent parts of a body or substance; to disunite elementary particles combined by affinity or chimical attraction; to resolve into original elements.

Decomposed

DECOMPO'SED, participle passive Separated or resolved into the constituent parts.

Decomposing

DECOMPO'SING, participle present tense Separating into constituent parts.

Decomposite

DECOMPOS'ITE, adjective Compounded a second time; compounded with things already composite.

Decomposition

DECOMPOSI'TION, noun

1. Analysis; the act of separating the constituent parts of a substance, which are chimically combined. decomposition differs from mechanical division, as the latter effects no change in the properties of the body divided, whereas the parts chimically decomposed have properties very different from those of the substance itself.

2. A second composition.

Decompound

DECOMPOUND', verb transitive

1. To compound a second time; to compound or mix with that which is already compound; to form by a second composition.

2. To decompose.

DECOMPOUND', adjective

1. Composed of things or words already compounded; compounded a second time.

2. A decompound leaf, in botany, is when the primary petiole is so divided that each part forms a compound leaf. A decompound flower is formed of compound flowers, or containing, within a common calyx, smaller calyxes, common to several flowers.

Decompoundable

DECOMPOUND'ABLE, adjective That may be decompounded.

Decompounded

DECOMPOUND'ED, participle passive Compounded a second time; composed of things already compounded.

Decompounding

DECOMPOUND'ING, participle present tense Compounding a second time.

Decorate

DEC'ORATE, verb transitive [Latin comeliness, grace.]

1. To adorn; to beautify; to embellish; used of external ornaments or apparel; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers.

2. To adorn with internal grace or beauty; to render lovely; as, to decorate the mind with virtue.

3. To adorn or beautify with any thing agreeable; to embellish; as, to decorate a hero with honors, or a lady with accomplishments.

Decorated

DEC'ORATED, participle passive Adorned; beautified; embellished.

Decorating

DEC'ORATING, participle present tense Adorning; embellishing; rendering beautiful to the eye, or lovely to the mind.

Decoration

DECORA'TION, noun

1. Ornament; embellishment; any thing added which renders more agreeable to the eye or to the intellectual view.

2. In architecture, any thing which adorns and enriches an edifice, as vases, paintings, figures, festoons, etc.

3. In theaters, the scenes, which are changed as occasion requires.

Decorator

DEC'ORATOR, noun One who adorns or embellishes.

Decorous

DEC'OROUS, adjective Decent; suitable to a character, or to the time, place and occasion; becoming; proper; befitting; as a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.

Decorously

DEC'OROUSLY, adverb In a becoming manner.

Decorticate

DECOR'TICATE, verb transitive [Latin bark.] To strip off bark; to peel; to husk; to take off the exterior coat; as, to decorticate barley.

Decorticated

DECOR'TICATED, participle passive Stripped of bark; peeled; husked.

Decorticating

DECOR'TICATING, participle present tense Stripping off bark or the external coat; peeling.

Decortication

DECORTICA'TION, noun The act of stripping off bark or husk.

Decorum

DECO'RUM, noun [Latin to become.]

1. Propriety of speech or behavior; suitableness of speech and behavior, to one's own character, and to the characters present, or to the place and occasion; seemliness; decency; opposed to rudeness, licentiousness, or levity.

To speak and behave with decorum is essential to good breeding.

2. In architecture, the suitableness of a building, and of its parts and ornaments, to its place and uses.

Decoy

DECOY, noun

1. Any thing intended to lead into a snare; any lure or allurement that deceives and misleads into evil, danger or the power of an enemy.

2. A place for catching wild fowls.

Decoy-Duck

DECOY-DUCK, noun A duck employed to draw others into a net or situation to be taken.

Decoy-Man

DECOY-MAN, noun A man employed in decoying and catching fowls.

Decoyed

DECOYED, participle passive Lured or drawn into a snare or net; allured into danger by deception.

Decoying

DECOYING, participle present tense Luring into a snare or net by deception; leading into evil or danger.

Decrease

DECREASE, verb intransitive [Latin To grow.] To become less; to be diminished gradually, in extent, bulk, quantity, or amount, or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, the days decrease in length from June to December.

He must increase, but I must decrease John 3:30.

DECREASE, verb transitive To lessen; to make smaller in dimensions, amount, quality or excellence, etc.; to diminish gradually or by small deductions; as, extravagance decreases the means of charity; every payment decreases a debt; intemperance decreases the strength and powers of life.

DECREASE, noun

1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as a decrease of revenue; a decrease of strength.

2. The wane of the moon; the gradual diminution of the visible face of the moon from the full to the change.

Decreased

DECREASED, participle passive Lessened; diminished.

Decreasing

DECREASING, participle present tense Becoming less; diminishing; waning.

Decree

DECREE, noun [Latin To judge; to divide.]

1. Judicial decision, or determination of a litigated cause; as a decree of the court of chancery. The decision of a court of equity is called a decree; that of a court of law, a judgment.

2. In the civil law, a determination or judgment of the emperor on a suit between parties.

3. An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.

4. In general, an order, edict or law made by a superior as a rule to govern inferiors.

There went a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. Luke 2:1.

5. Established law, or rule.

He made a decree for the rain. Job 28:26.

6. In theology, predetermined purpose of God; the purpose or determination of an immutable Being, whose plan of operations is, like himself, unchangeable.

DECREE, verb transitive

1. To determine judicially; to resolve by sentence; as, the court decreed that the property should be restored; or they decreed a restoration of the property.

2. To determine or resolve legislatively; to fix or appoint; to set or constitute by edict or in purpose.

Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established. Job 22:28.

Let us not be solicitous to know what God has decreed concerning us.

Decreed

DECREED, participle passive Determined judicially; resolved; appointed; established in purpose.

Decreeing

DECREEING, participle present tense Determining; resolving; appointing; ordering.

Decrement

DECREMENT, noun

1. Decrease; waste; the state of becoming less gradually.

Rocks and mountains suffer a continual decrement

2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution, or waste.

3. In heraldry, the wane of the moon.

4. In crystalography, a successive diminution of the lamens of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which the secondary forms are supposed to be produced.

Decrepit

DECREPIT, adjective [Latin to break.] Broken down with age; wasted or worn by the infirmities of old age; being in the last stage of decay; weakened by age.

Decrepitate

DECREPITATE, verb transitive [Latin To break or burst, to crackle.] To roast or calcine in a strong heat, with a continual bursting or crackling of the substance; as, to decrepitate salt.

DECREPITATE, verb intransitive To crackle, as salts when roasting.

Decrepitated

DECREPITATED, participle passive Roasted with a crackling noise.

Decrepitating

DECREPITATING, participle present tense Crackling; roasting with a crackling noise; suddenly bursting when exposed to heat.

Decrepitation

DECREPITATION, noun The act of roasting with a continual crackling; or the separation of parts with a crackling noise, occasioned by heat.

Decrepitness

DECREPITNESS,

DECREPITUDE, noun The broken, crazy state of the body, produced by decay and the infirmities of age.

Decrepitude

DECREPITUDE, n. The broken, crazy state of the body, produced by decay and the infirmities of age.

Decrescent

DECRESCENT, adjective Decreasing; becoming less by gradual diminution; as a decrescent moon.

Decretal

DECRETAL, noun

1. A letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.

2. A book of decrees, or edicts; a body of laws.

3. A collection of the popes decrees.

Decretion

DECRETION, noun A decreasing.

Decretist

DECRETIST, noun One who studies or professes the knowledge of the decretals.

Decretorily

DECRETORILY, adverb In a definitive manner.

Decretory

DECRETORY, adjective

1. Judicial; definitive; established by a decree.

The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence.

2. Critical; determining; in which there is some definitive event; as, critical or decretory days.

Decrew

DECREW, verb intransitive To decrease.

Decrial

DECRIAL, noun A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

Decried

DECRIED, participle passive Cried down; descredited; brought into disrepute.

Decrier

DECRIER, noun One who decries.

Decrown

DECROWN, verb transitive To deprive of a crown.

Decry

DECRY, verb transitive

1. To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean or worthless; to clamor against; to discredit by finding fault; as, to decry a poem.

2. To cry down, as improper or unnecessary; to rail or clamor against; to bring into desrepute; as, to decry the measures of administration.

Decubation

DECUBATION, noun The act of lying down.

Decumbence

DECUMBENCE,

DECUMBENCY, noun [Latin To lie down.] The act of lying down; the posture of lying down.

Decumbency

DECUMBENCY, n. [L. To lie down.] The act of lying down; the posture of lying down.

Decumbent

DECUMBENT, adjective In botany, declined or bending down; having the stamens and pistils bending down to the lower side; as a decumbent flower.

Decumbiture

DECUMBITURE, noun

1. The time at which a person takes to his bed in a disease.

2. In astrology, the scheme or aspect of the heavens, by which the prognostics of recovery or death are discovered.

Decuple

DECUPLE, adjective [Latin Ten.] Tenfold; containing ten times as many.

DECUPLE, noun A number ten times repeated.

Decurion

DECURION, noun [Latin Ten] An officer in the Roman army, who commanded a decuria, or ten soldiers, which was a third part of the turma, and a thirtieth of the legion of cavalry.

Decurrent

DECURRENT, adjective [Latin To run down; to run.] Extending downwards. A decurrent leaf is a sessile leaf having its base extending downwards along the stem.

Decursion

DECURSION, noun [Latin To run.] The act of running down, as a stream.

Decursive

DECURSIVE, adjective Running down.

DECURSIVEly pinnate, in botany, applied to a leaf, having the leaflets decurrent or running along the petiole.

Decurt

DECURT, verb transitive To shorten by cutting off.

Decurtation

DECURTATION, noun [Latin To shorten.] Tha act of shortening, or cutting short.

Decury

DECURY, noun [Latin Ten.] A set of ten men under an officer called decurio.

Decussate

DECUSSATE, verb transitive [Latin To cut or strike across.] To intersect at acute angles, thus X; or in general, to intersect; to cross; as lines, rays, or nerves in the body.

Decussated

DECUSSATED, adjective Crossed; intersected. In botany, decussated leaves and branches, are such as grow in pairs which alternately cross each other at right angles, or in a regular manner.

In rhetoric, a decussated period is one that consists of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other. For example, If impudence could effect as much in courts of justice, as insolence sometimes does in the country, Caesina would now yield to the impudence of Ebutius, as he then yielded to his insolent assault.

Decussating

DECUSSATING, participle present tense Intersecting at acute angles; crossing.

Decussation

DECUSSATION, noun The act of crossing at unequal angles; the crossing of two lines, rays or nerves, which meet in a point and then proceed and diverge.

Dedalian

DEDALIAN, adjective Various; variegated; intricate; complex; expert.

Dedalous

DEDALOUS, adjective Having a margin with various windings and turnings; of a beautiful and delicate texture; a term applied to the leaves of plants.

Dedecorate

DEDECORATE, verb transitive To disgrace.

Dedecoration

DEDECORATION, noun A disgracing.

Dedentition

DEDENTITION, noun The shedding of teeth.

Dedicate

DEDICATE, verb transitive [Latin To vow, promise, devote, dedicate See Class Dg. No. 12, 15, 45. The sense is to send, to throw; hence, to set, to appoint.]

1. To set apart and consecrate to a divine Being, or to a sacred purpose; to devote to a sacred use, by a solemn act, or by religious ceremonies; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, an altar, or a church, to God or to a religious use.

Vessels of silver, of gold, and of brass, which king David did dedicate to the Lord. 2 Sam. Viii.

2. To appropriate solemnly to any person or purpose; to give wholly or chiefly to. The ministers of the gospel dedicate themselves, their time and their studies, to the service of Christ. A soldier dedicates himself to the profession of arms.

3. To inscribe or address to a patron; as, to dedicate a book.

DEDICATE, adjective Consecrated; devoted; appropriated.

Dedicated

DEDICATED, participle passive Devoted to a divine Being, or to a sacred use; consecrated; appropriated; given wholly to.

Dedicating

DEDICATING, participle present tense Devoting to a divine Being, or to a sacred purpose; consecrating; appropriating; giving wholly to.

Dedication

DEDICATION, noun

1. The act of consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as the dedication of Solomons temple.

2. The act of devoting or giving to.

3. An address to a patron, prefixed to a book, testifying respect and recommending the work to his protection and favor.

Dedicator

DEDICATOR, noun One who dedicates; one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron.

Dedicatory

DEDICATORY, adjective Composing a dedication; as an epistle dedicatory

Dedition

DEDITION, noun [Latin To yield.] The act of yielding any thing; surrendry.

Dedolent

DEDOLENT, adjective Feeling no compunction.

Deduce

DEDUCE, verb transitive [Latin To lead, bring or draw.]

1. To draw from; to bring from.

O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes

From the dire nation in its early times?

2. To draw from, in reasoning; to gather a truth, opinion or proposition from premises; to infer something from what precedes.

Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.

3. To deduct.

4. To transplant.

Deduced

DEDUCED, participle passive Drawn from; inferred; as a consequence from principles or premises.

Deducement

DEDUCEMENT, noun The thing drawn from or deduced; inference; that which is collected from premises.

Deducible

DEDUCIBLE, adjective That may be deduced; inferable; collectible by reason from premises; consequential.

The properties of a triangle are deducible from the complex idea of three lines including a space.

Deducing

DEDUCING, participle present tense Drawing from; inferring; collecting from principles or facts already established or known.

Deducive

DEDUCIVE, adjective Performing the act of deduction.

Deduct

DEDUCT, verb transitive To take from; to subtract; to separate or remove, in numbering, estimating or calculating. Thus we say, from the sum of two numbers, deduct the lesser number; from the amount of profits, deduct the charges of freight.

Deducted

DEDUCTED, participle passive Taken from; subtracted.

Deducting

DEDUCTING, ppt. Taking from; subtracting.

Deduction

DEDUCTION, noun

1. The act of deducting.

2. That which is deducted; sum or amount taken from another; defalcation; abatement; as, this sum is a deduction from the yearly rent.

3. That which is drawn from premises; fact, opinion, or hypothesis, collected from principles or facts stated, or established data; inference; consequence drawn; conclusion; as, this opinion is a fair deduction from the principles you have advanced.

Deductive

DEDUCTIVE, adjective Deducible; that is or may be deduced from premises.

All knowledge is deductive

Deductively

DEDUCTIVELY, adverb By regular deduction; by way of inference; by consequence.