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Decease

Decease Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Decease? [n] the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" [v] pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Decease: death \| die \| exit \| expire \| go \| pass \| pass away \| perish Related Terms \| Find terms related to Decease: annihilation \| apodosis \| bane \| be lost \| biological death \| cash in \| catastrophe \| cease to be \| cease to live \| ceasing \| cessation \| cessation of life \| clinical death \| coda \| conclusion \| consummation \| crack of doom \| crossing the bar \| culmination \| curtain \| curtains \| death \| death knell \| debt of nature \| demise \| denouement \| depart \| depart this life \| departure \| destination \| destiny \| die \| dissolution \| doom \| drop \| dying \| ebb of life \| effect \| end \| end of life \| end point \| ending \| envoi \| epilogue \| eschatology \| eternal rest \| exit \| expiration \| expire \| extinction \| extinguishment \| fall \| fall asleep \| fate \| final solution \| final summons \| final twitch \| final words \| finale \| finality \| finger of death \| finis \| finish \| go \| go out \| goal \| going \| going off \| grave \| hand of death \| izzard \| jaws of death \| knell \| last \| last breath \| last debt \| last gasp \| last muster \| last rest \| last roundup \| last sleep \| last things \| last trumpet \| last words \| latter end \| leaving life \| loss of life \| making an end \| omega \| part \| parting \| pass \| pass away \| pass on \| pass over \| passing \| passing away \| passing over \| payoff \| period \| perish \| perishing \| peroration \| put off mortality \| quietus \| quit this world \| release \| resolution \| rest \| resting place \| return to dust \| reward \| sentence of death \| shades of death \| shadow of death \| silence \| sleep \| somatic death \| stop breathing \| stoppage \| stopping place \| succumb \| summons of death \| swan song \| term \| terminal \| termination \| terminus \| up and die \| windup \| yield the ghost \| Z See Also \| alteration \| asphyxiate \| buy it \| buy the farm \| change \| change state \| choke \| conk \| croak \| Crucifixion \| departure \| die back \| die down \| die off \| die out \| drop dead \| drown \| exit \| expiration \| fall \| famish \| fatality \| going \| human death \| kick the bucket \| loss \| martyrdom \| megadeath \| modification \| passing \| pip out \| pop off \| predecease \| release \| snuff it \| starve \| succumb \| suffocate \| turn \| yield Decease In Webster's Dictionary \Decease"\, n. [OE. deses, deces, F. d['e]c[`e]s, 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}. \Decease"\, 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.

Decease Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Decease?

[n] the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"
[v] pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"

Decease In Webster's Dictionary

\De*cease"\, n. [OE. deses, deces, F. d['e]c[`e]s, 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.

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