Deconsecrate (v. t.) To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.
Decorament (v. t.) Ornament.
Decorated (imp. & p. p.) of Decorate
Decorating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decorate
Decorate (v. t.) To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.
Decoration (n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
Decoration (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
Decoration (n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
Decorative (a.) Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning.
Decorator (n.) One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.
Decore (v. t.) To decorate; to beautify.
Decorement (n.) Ornament.
Decorous (a.) Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.
Decorticated (imp. & p. p.) of Decorticate
Decorticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decorticate
Decorticate (v. t.) To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
Decortication (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.
Decorticator (n.) A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.
Decorum (n.) Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
Decoyed (imp. & p. p.) of Decoy
Decoying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decoy
Decoy (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
Decoy (n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
Decoy (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
Decoy (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
Decoy (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
Decoy-duck (n.) A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger.
Decoyer (n.) One who decoys another.
Decoy-men (pl. ) of Decoy-man
Decoy-man (n.) A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
Decreased (imp. & p. p.) of Decrease
Decreasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decrease
Decrease (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
Decrease (v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
Decrease (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
Decrease (v.) The wane of the moon.
Decreaseless (a.) Suffering no decrease.
Decreasing (a.) Becoming less and less; diminishing.
Decreation (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation.
Decree (n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.
Decree (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
Decree (n.) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
Decree (n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
Decreed (imp. & p. p.) of Decree
Decreeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decree
Decree (v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.
Decree (v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
Decreeable (a.) Capable of being decreed.
Decreer (n.) One who decrees.
Decreet (n.) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
Decrement (n.) The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
Decrement (n.) The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
Decrement (n.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
Decrement (n.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
Decrepit (a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
Decrepitated (imp. & p. p.) of Decrepitate
Decrepitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decrepitate
Decrepitate (v. t.) To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
Decrepitate (v. i.) To crackle, as salt in roasting.
Decrepitation (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
Decrepitness (n.) Decrepitude.
Decrepitude (n.) The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Decrescendo (a. & adv.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Decrescent (a.) Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.
Decrescent (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
Decretal (a.) Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle.
Decretal (a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.
Decretal (a.) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.
Decrete (n.) A decree.
Decretion (n.) A decrease.
Decretist (n.) One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.
Decretive (n.) Having the force of a decree; determining.
Decretorial (a.) Decretory; authoritative.
Decretorily (adv.) In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.
Decretory (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
Decretory (a.) Serving to determine; critical.
Decrew (v. i.) To decrease.
Decrial (n.) A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.
Decrier (n.) One who decries.
Decrown (v. t.) To deprive of a crown; to discrown.
Decrustation (n.) The removal of a crust.
Decried (imp. & p. p.) of Decry
Decrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decry
Decry (v. t.) To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.
Decubation (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence.
Decubitus (n.) An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus.
Decuman (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.
Decumbence (n.) Alt. of Decumbency
Decumbency (n.) The act or posture of lying down.
Decumbent (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
Decumbent (a.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.
Decumbently (adv.) In a decumbent posture.
Decumbiture (n.) Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.
Decumbiture (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.
Decuple (a.) Tenfold.
Decuple (n.) A number ten times repeated.
Decupled (imp. & p. p.) of Decuple
Decupling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decuple
Decuple (v. t.) To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.