Dictionary: DE-CRUST-A'TION – DE-CUS-SA'TION

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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.

DEC'U-PLE, n.

A number ten times repeated.

DEC'U-PLE, v.t.

To make tenfold.

DEC'U-PLED, ppr.

To make tenfold. – Coleridge.

DE-CU'RI-ON, n. [L. decurio, from decem, Gr. δεκα, ten.]

An officer in the Roman army, who commanded a decuria, or ten soldiers, which was a third part of the turma, and a thirtieth of the legion of cavalry. – Encyc. Temple.

DE-CU'RI-ON-ATE, n.

The state or office of a decurion.

DE-CUR'RENT, a. [L. decurrens, from decurro, to run down; de and curro, to run.]

Extending downward. A decurrent leaf is a sessile leaf, having its base extending downward along the stem. – Martyn.

DE-CUR'RENT-LY, adv.

In a decurrent manner.

DE-CUR'SION, n. [L. decursio, from decurro; de and curro, to run.]

The act of running down, as a stream. – Hale.

DE-CUR'SIVE, a.

Running down. Decursively pinnate, in botany, applied to a leaf, having the leaflets decurrent or running along the petiole.

DE-CURT', v.t. [L. decurto.]

To shorten by cutting off. [Not in use.]

DE-CURT-A'TION, n. [L. decurto, to shorten; de and curto.]

The act of shortening or cutting short.

DEC'U-RY, n. [L. decuria, from decem, Gr. δεκα, ten.]

A set of ten men under an officer called decurio.

DE-CUS'SATE, or DE-CUS'SA-TED, a.

Crossed; intersected. In botany decussated leaves and branches, are such as grow in pairs which alternately cross each other at right angles, or in a regular manner. – Martyn. Lee. In rhetoric, a decussated period is one that consists of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other. For example, “If impudence could effect as much in courts of justice, as insolence sometimes does in the country, Cæsina would now yield to the impudence of Ebutius, as he then yielded to his insolent assault.” – J. Q. Adams, Lect.

DE-CUS'SATE, v.t. [L. decusso, to cut or strike across.]

To intersect at acute angles, thus X; or in general, to intersect; to cross; as lines, rays, or nerves in the body. – Encyc.

DE-CUS'SA-TING, ppr.

Intersecting at acute angles; crossing.

DE-CUS-SA'TION, n.

The act of crossing at unequal angles; the crossing of two lines, rays or nerves, which meet in a point and then proceed and diverge. – Encyc.