decease

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/dɪˈsiːs/

Definition of decease

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, formal, uncountable)Death, departure from life.

“So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease […]”
“I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.”

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noun

(countable, formal, uncountable)Death, departure from life.

“So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease […]”
“I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.”

verb

(archaic)To die.

“After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.”
(formal, transitive)To cause to die.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).

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