Definition of decease

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Decease (v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.

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Inferiae :: Inferiae (n. pl.) Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.
Bury :: Bury (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume..
Demise :: Demise (n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person..
Diptych :: Diptych (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints..
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
Devastavit :: Devastavit (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.
Keen :: Keen (n.) A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach.
Decedent :: Decedent (n.) A deceased person.
Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of
Devastation :: Devastation (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
Beatify :: Beatify (v. t.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of the blessed and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized..
Executor :: Executor (n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease..
Departure :: Departure (n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.
Probate :: Probate (n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved..
Defunct :: Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
Requiem :: Requiem (n.) Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person..
Posthumously :: Posthumously (adv.) In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.
Go :: Go (v. i.) To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
Predecease :: Predecease (v. t.) To die sooner than.
De- :: De- () A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc..
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