Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DEC'RE-MENT
DEC'RE-MENT, n. [L. decrementum, from decresco. See Decrease.]
- Decrease; waste; the state of becoming less gradually. Rocks and mountains suffer a continual decrement. – Woodward.
- The quantity lost by gradual diminution, or waste.
- In heraldry, the wane of the moon.
- In crystalography, a successive diminution of the lamene of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which the secondary forms are supposed to be produced. – Haüy.
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