Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-CREP'IT-A-TED, pp.

Roasted with a crackling noise.

DE-CREP'IT-A-TING, ppr.

Crackling; roasting with a crackling noise; suddenly bursting when exposed to heat.

DE-CREP-IT-A'TION, n.

The act of roasting with a continual crackling; or the separation of parts with a crackling noise, occasioned by heat.

DE-CREP'IT-NESS, or DE-CREPIT-UDE, n. [See Decrepit.]

The broken, crazy state of the body, produced by decay and the infirmities of age.

DE-CRES'CENT, a. [L. decrescens. See Decrease.]

Decreasing; becoming less by gradual diminution; as, a decrescent moon.

DE-CRE'TAL, a. [See Decree.]

Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle. Ayliffe.

DE-CRE'TAL, n.

1. A letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law. Encyc.
2. A book of decrees, or edicts; a body of laws. Spenser.
3. A collection of the pope's decrees.

DE-CRE'TION, n. [See Decrease.]

A decreasing. [Not used.] Pearson.

DE-CRE'TIST, n.

One who studies or professes the knowledge of the decretals.

DEC'RE-TO-RI-LY, adv.

In a definitive manner. Goodman.

DEC'RE-TO-RY, a.

1. Judicial; definitive; established by a decree. The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence. South.
2. Critical; determining; in which there is some definitive event; as, critical or decretory days. Brown.

DE-CREW', v.i.

To decrease. [Not in use.]

DE-CRI'AL, n. [See Decry.]

A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

DE-CRI'ED, pp.

Cried down; discredited; brought into disrepute.

DE-CRI'ER, n.

One who decries. [It would be better to write decryal, decryed, decryer.]

DE-CROWN', v.t. [de and crown.]

To deprive of a crown. [Little used.] Overbury.

DE-CRUST-A'TION, n.

The removal of a crust from.

DE-CRY', v.t. [Fr. decrier; de and crier, to cry.]

1. To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean or worthless; to clamor against; to discredit by finding fault; as, to decry a poem.
2. To cry down, as improper or unnecessary; to rail or clamor against; to bring into disrepute; as, to decry the measures of administration.

DE-CRY'ING, ppr.

Crying down.

DE-CU-BA'TION, n. [L. decumbo.]

The act of lying down. Evelyn.

DE-CUM'BENCE, or DE-CUM'BEN-CY, n. [L. decumbens, from decumbo, to lie down; de and cumbo, to lie down.]

The act of lying down; the posture of lying down. Brown.

DE-CUM'BENT, a.

In botany, declined or bending down; having the stamens and pistils bending down to the lower side; as, a decumbent flower. Martyn.

DE-CUM'BENT-LY, adv.

In a decumbent posture.

DE-CUM'BI-TURE, n.

1. The time at which a person takes to his bed in a disease.
2. In astrology, the scheme or aspect of the heavens, by which the prognostics of recovery or death are discovered.

DEC'U-PLE, a. [L. decuplus; Gr. δεκαπλους, from δεκα, ten.]

Tenfold; containing ten times as many.