decede
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From Latin dēcēdō (“I withdraw”).
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decede (third-person singular simple present decedes, present participle deceding, simple past and past participle deceded)
- (obsolete) To withdraw.
- 1654, Thomas Fuller, The Lord's Prayer ought not to be used by all Christians. Luke xi. 2:
- God had ordered them not to decede from this form
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “decede”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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decede
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decede
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dēcēde