decease
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /dɪˈsiːs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːs
Noun
[edit]decease (countable and uncountable, plural deceases)
- (formal) Death, departure from life.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 13”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination: then you were
Yourself again after yourself's decease […]
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]departure, especially departure from this life; death
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Verb
[edit]decease (third-person singular simple present deceases, present participle deceasing, simple past and past participle deceased)
- (now rare) To die.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.
Usage notes
[edit]The noun and verb forms are much less commonly used than the participial adjective deceased, particularly outside formal, literary, or legal usage.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to die
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