Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DE-CID'ED-LY – DE-CI'PHER-ER
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DE-CID'ED-LY, adv.
In a decided or determined manner; clearly; indisputably; in a manner to preclude doubt.
DE-CI'DENCE, n. [L. decidens.]
A falling off. [Not in use.] – Brown.
DE-CID'ER, n.
One who determines a cause or contest.
DE-CID'ING, ppr.
Determining; ending; concluding.
DE-CID'U-OUS, a. [L. deciduus; decido; de and cado, to fall.]
Falling; not perennial or permanent. In botany, a deciduous leaf is one which falls in autumn; a deciduous calyx is that which falls along with the corol and stamens; distinguished from permanent. – Martyn.
The quality of falling once a year.
DEC'I-GRAM, n.
A French weight of one tenth of a gram.
DE'CIL, a.
An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac. – Encyc.
DEC'IL-IT-ER, n.
A French measure of capacity equal to one tenth of a liter.
DE-CIL'LION, n.
A number involved to the tenth power.
DE-CILL'IONTH, a.
Pertaining to a decillion.
DEC'IM-AL, a. [L. decimus, tenth, from decem, ten; Gr. δεκα; Goth. tig, ten, Sax. a tie.]
- Numbered by ten; as, decimal progression. – Locke.
- Increasing or diminishing by ten; as, decimal numbers; decimal arithmetic; decimal fractions.
- Tenth; as a decimal part.
DEC'IM-AL, n.
A tenth.
DEC'IM-AL-LY, adv.
By tens, by means of decimals.
DEC'IM-ATE, v.t. [L. decimo, from decem, ten.]
- To tithe; to take the tenth part.
- To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man; a practice in armies, for punishing mutinous or unfaithful troops.
- To take every tenth. – Mitford.
DEC'IM-A-TED, pp.
Tithed; taken by lots.
DEC'IM-A-TING, ppr.
Tithing; taken by lots.
DEC-IM-A'TION, n.
- A tithing; a selection of every tenth by lot.
- The selecting by lot for punishment every tenth man, in a company or regiment, &c.
DEC'IM-A-TOR, n.
One who selects every tenth man for punishment. – South.
DE-CIM'E-TER, n.
A French measure of length equal to the tenth part of a meter, or 3 inches and 93710 decimals.
DEC'IM-O-SEX-TO, a. [L.]
A book is in decimo-sexto, when a sheet is folded into sixteen leaves. – Taylor.
DE-CI'PHER, v.t. [Fr. dechiffrer; de and chiffre, a cipher; It. deciferare; Sp. descifrar; Port. decifrar. See Cipher.]
- To find the alphabet of a cipher; to explain what is written in ciphers, by finding what letter each character or mark represents; as, to decipher a letter written in ciphers.
- To unfold; to unravel what is intricate; to explain what is obscure or difficult to be understood; as, to decipher an ambiguous speech, or an ancient manuscript or inscription. 3. To write out; to mark down in characters. Locke. [This use is now uncommon, and perhaps improper.]
- To stamp; to mark; to characterize. [Unusual.] – Shak.
DE-CI'PHER-A-BLE, a.
That may be deciphered, or interpreted.
DE-CI'PHER-ED, pp.
Explained; unraveled; marked.
DE-CI'PHER-ER, n.
One who explains what is written in ciphers.