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Webster 1828 Edition


Declining

DECLI'NING

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ppr.
Leaning; deviating; falling; failing; decaying; tending to a worse state; avoiding; refusing; inflecting.
DECLIV'ITY, n. [L. sloping.] Declination from a horizontal line; descent of land; inclination downward; a slope; a gradual descent of the earth, of a rock or other thing: chiefly used of the earth, and opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, and considered as ascending, an acclivity.
DECLI'VOUS,
DECLIV'ITOUS, a. Gradually descending; not precipitous; sloping.
DECOCT', v.t. [L. to boil.]

Definition 2024


declining

declining

English

Verb

declining

  1. present participle of decline

Noun

declining (plural declinings)

  1. decline
    • John Whitgift
      For they had no civil magistrate which might correct and reform those declinings when they happened.