Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DEC'O-RA-TED – DE-CREAS'ING
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DEC'O-RA-TED, pp.
Adorned; beautified; embellished.
DEC'O-RA-TING, ppr.
Adorning; embellishing; rendering beautiful to the eye, or lovely to the mind.
DEC-O-RA'TION, n.
- Ornament; embellishment; any thing added which renders more agreeable to the eye or to the intellectual view.
- In architecture, any thing which adorns and enriches an edifice, as vases, paintings, figures, festoons, &c.
- In theaters, the scenes, which are changed as occasion requires.
DEC'O-RA-TIVE, a.
Adorning; suited to embellish.
Quality of being decorative.
DEC'O-RA-TOR, n.
One who adorns or embellishes.
DEC'O-ROUS, a. [L. decorus; See Decency.]
Decent; suitable to a character, or to the time, place and occasion; becoming; proper; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.
DEC'O-ROUS-LY, adv.
In a becoming manner.
DEC'O-ROUS-NESS, n.
Decency or propriety of behavior.
DE-COR'TI-CATE, v.t. [L. decortico; de and cortex, bark.]
To strip off bark; to peel; to husk; to take off the exterior coat; as, to decorticate barley. – Arbuthnot.
DE-COR'TI-CA-TED, pp.
Stripped of bark; peeled; husked.
DE-COR'TI-CA-TING, ppr.
Stripping off bark or the external coat; peeling.
The act of stripping off bark or husk.
DE-CO'RUM, n. [L. from deceo, to become. See Decency.]
- Propriety of speech or behavior; suitableness of speech and behavior, to one's own character, and to the characters present, or to the place and occasion; seemliness; decency; opposed to rudeness, licentiousness, or levity. To speak and behave with decorum is essential to good breeding.
- In architecture, the suitableness of a building, and of its parts and ornaments, to its place and uses.
DE-COY', n.
- Any thing intended to lead into a snare; any lure or allurement that deceives and misleads into evil, danger, or the power of an enemy.
- A place for catching wild fowls.
DE-COY', v.t. [D. kooi, a cabin, berth, bed, fold, cage, decoy; kooijen, to lie, to bed.]
To lead or lure by artifice into a snare, with a view to catch; to draw into any situation to be taken by a foe; to entrap by any means which deceive. The fowler decoys ducks into a net. Troops may be decoyed into an ambush. One ship decoys another within reach of her shot.
DE-COY'-DUCK, n.
A duck employed to draw others into a net or situation to be taken.
DE-COY'ED, pp.
Lured or drawn into a snare or net; allured into danger by deception.
DE-COY'ING, ppr.
Luring into a snare or net by deception; leading into evil or danger.
DE-COY'-MAN, n.
A man employed in decoying and catching fowls.
DE-CREASE', n.
- A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue; a decrease of strength.
- The wane of the moon; the gradual diminution of the visible face of the moon from the full to the change.
DE-CREASE', v.i. [L. decresco; de and cresco, to grow; Fr. decroître; It. decrescere; Sp. decrecer; Arm. digrisgi. See Grow.]
To become less; to be diminished gradually, in extent, bulk, quantity, or amount, or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, the days decrease in length from June to December. He must increase, but I must decrease. – John iii.
DE-CREASE', v.t.
To lessen; to make smaller in dimensions, amount, quality or excellence, &c.; to diminish gradually or by small deductions; as, extravagance decreases the means of charity; every payment decreases a debt; intemperance decreases the strength and powers of life.
DE-CREAS'ED, pp.
Lessened; diminished.
DE-CREAS'ING, ppr.
Becoming less; diminishing; waning.