| Decline (decline) |
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| v. i. | (?) |
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| De*cline" |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Declined (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Declining.] [OE. declinen to bend down, lower, sink,
decline (a noun |
To
bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or
hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to
condescend.
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.
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to
stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from
straightness; conduct that declines from sound
morals.
To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the
opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined,
upon principle.
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| Decline (decline) |
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| v. t. | |
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| De*cline" |
|
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend,
or fall.
To cause to decrease or diminish.
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.
To inflect, or rehearse in
order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a
noun or an adjective.
To run through from first to last; to
repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
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| Decline (decline) |
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| n. | (?) |
|---|
| De*cline" |
| [F.
déclin. See 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.
That period of a disorder or
paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the
decline of a fever.
A gradual sinking and wasting away of the
physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption;
as, to die of a decline.
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