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Webster 1913 Edition


Declined

De-clined′

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Adj.
Declinate.

Webster 1828 Edition


Declined

DECLI'NED

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pp.
Bent downward or from; inflected.
DECLI'NING, 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


declined

declined

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Verb

declined

  1. simple past tense and past participle of decline