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Declining
DECLI'NING
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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
- present participle of decline
Noun
declining (plural declinings)
- decline
- John Whitgift
- For they had no civil magistrate which might correct and reform those declinings when they happened.
- John Whitgift