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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Decease

De·cease′, n. [OE. deses, deces, F. décès, 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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.