Declare (v. t.) To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
Declare (v. t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.
Declare (v. t.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.
Declare (v. i.) 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.
Declare (v. i.) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.
Declaredly (adv.) Avowedly; explicitly.
Declaredness (n.) The state of being declared.
Declarement (n.) Declaration.
Declarer (n.) One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.
Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
Declension (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
Declension (n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
Declension (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
Declension (n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
Declension (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined.
Declensional (a.) Belonging to declension.
Declinable (a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
Declinal (a.) Declining; sloping.
Declinate (a.) Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.
Declination (n.) The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
Declination (n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
Declination (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
Declination (n.) The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
Declination (n.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
Declination (n.) 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.
Declination (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
Declinator (n.) An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
Declinator (n.) A dissentient.
Declinatory (a.) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
Declinature (n.) The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
Declined (imp. & p. p.) of Decline
Declining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decline
Decline (v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
Decline (v. i.) 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.
Decline (v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
Decline (v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
Decline (v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
Decline (v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.
Decline (v. t.) 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.
Decline (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
Decline (v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
Decline (v. i.) 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.
Decline (v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
Declined (a.) Declinate.
Decliner (n.) He who declines or rejects.
Declinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
Declinous (a.) Declinate.
Declivitous (a.) Alt. of Declivous
Declivous (a.) Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.
Declivities (pl. ) of Declivity
Declivity (n.) 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.
Declivity (n.) A descending surface; a sloping place.
Decocted (imp. & p. p.) of Decoct
Decocting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decoct
Decoct (v. t.) 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.
Decoct (v. t.) To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.
Decoct (v. t.) To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling.
Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.
Decoction (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
Decoction (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
Decocture (n.) A decoction.
Decollated (imp. & p. p.) of Decollate
Decollating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decollate
Decollate (v. t.) To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
Decollated (a.) Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
Decollation (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
Decollation (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.
Decollete (a.) Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
Decolling (n.) Beheading.
Decolor (v. t.) To deprive of color; to bleach.
Decolorant (n.) A substance which removes color, or bleaches.
Decolorate (a.) Deprived of color.
Decolorate (v. t.) To decolor.
Decoloration (n.) The removal or absence of color.
Decolorize (v. t.) To deprive of color; to whiten.
Decomplex (a.) Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.
Decomposable (a.) Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.
Decomposed (imp. & p. p.) of Decompose
Decomposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decompose
Decompose (v. t.) To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
Decompose (v. i.) To become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.
Decomposed (a.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
Decomposite (a.) Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
Decomposite (a.) See Decompound, a., 2.
Decomposite (n.) Anything decompounded.
Decomposition (n.) The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.
Decomposition (n.) The state of being reduced into original elements.
Decomposition (n.) Repeated composition; a combination of compounds.
Decompounded (imp. & p. p.) of Decompound
Decompounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decompound
Decompound (v. t.) To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.
Decompound (v. t.) To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.
Decompound (a.) Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time.
Decompound (a.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.
Decompound (n.) A decomposite.
Decompoundable (a.) Capable of being decompounded.
Deconcentrate (v. t.) To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.
Deconcentration (n.) Act of deconcentrating.
Deconcoct (v. t.) To decompose.