DECLAREDLY
DECLA'REDLY, adverb Avowedly; explicitly.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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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; p...
DECLATABLE
DECLA'TABLE, adjective That may be declared, or proved.
DECLENSION
DECLEN'SION, noun1. 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 dec...
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, noun1. 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; d...
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, int...
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, in...
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 ...
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: c...
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 n...
DECOCTIBLE
DECOCT'IBLE, adjective That may be boiled or digested.
DECOCTION
DECOC'TION, noun1. 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 ...
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...
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 in...