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- Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
De*cease" (?), n. [OE. deses,
deces, F. décès, fr. L. decessus
departure, death, fr. decedere to depart, die; de- +
cedere to withdraw. See Cease, Cede.]
Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
His decease, which he should accomplish at
Jerusalem. Luke ix. 31.
And I, the whilst you mourn for his
decease,
Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase.
Spenser.
Syn. -- Death; departure; dissolution; demise; release. See
Death.
De*cease", v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Deceased (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Deceasing.] To depart from this life; to die; to pass
away.
She's dead, deceased, she's dead.
Shak.
When our summers have deceased.
Tennyson.
Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with
him, he so far deceases from nature.
Emerson.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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