Decease definition

dĭ-sēs
deceased deceases deceasing
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To die.
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The act of dying; death.
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Death.
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To die.
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The act of dying; death.
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(formal) Death.
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(obsolescent) Departure, especially departure from this life.
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(now rare) To die.
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(archaic) To die.
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Origin of decease

  • Middle English decesen from deces death from Old French from Latin dēcessus departure, death from past participle of dēcēdere to depart, die dē- de- cēdere to go ked- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French deces (French décès).

    From Wiktionary

Decease Sentence Examples

  • The predominance of his family in Siena did not last long after his decease.

  • The experiences of the religious mystic are paralleled with the ecstatic vision in which the philosophical hermit sees a world of pure intelligences, where birth and decease are unknown.

  • The first volume of the History of Israel appeared in 1887, the third and finest volume in 1891, the last two only after the historian's decease.

  • The opponents of the book rely (1) on the testimony of a certain Louis Guyon, who in 1604 declared that the fifth book was made long after Rabelais's death by an author whom he knew, and who was not a doctor, and on the assertion of the bibliographer Du Verdier, about the same time, that it was written by an "ecolier de Valence"; (2) on the fact that the anti-monastic and even anti-Catholic polemic is much more accentuated in it; (3) on the arguments that parts are apparently replicas or rough drafts of passages already appearing in the four earlier books; and (4) that some allusions are manifestly posterior to even the furthest date which can be assigned for the reputed author's decease.

  • The creditor may demand the arazi-memuru to proceed to a forced sale, but the arazi-memuru is not obliged to comply with that demand; no forced sale may take place after the decease of the debtor.

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