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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Decamped

(?; 215)

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Decamping

[F.

décamper

; pref.

dé-

(L.

dis

) +

camp

camp. See

To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.

Macaulay.

Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; – generally used disparagingly.

The fathers were ordered to

decamp

, and the house was once again converted into a tavern.

Goldsmith.

Verb.

To remove or depart from a camp; to march off; as, the army decamped at six o'clock.

MENT,

Noun.

Departure from a camp; a marching off.

DEC'ANAL, a. Pertaining to a deanery.

DECAN'DER, n. [Gr., ten and a male.] In botany, a plant having ten stamens.