decease
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In the capillaries and veins, the blood pressure continues to decease but velocity increases.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Yet here I hardly know whether I should divulge one little item of rumor, which came to my ear a few months after the scrivener’s decease.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2015
No, we don't mean Margaret Thatcher, though her decease prompted ruminations about her cinematic era and the effect it's had since.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2013
I advance personally, solely to you ... decease calls me forth.”
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2013
That night, I listened with care to his breathing as he slept; and I thought on final words, and that he did not believe he had a soul that would survive his decease.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Further testing for communicable deceases is being performed.”
From Time ● Oct. 29, 2015
Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
His soul dwells in the outside of him, like that of a hollow tree, and if you do but peel the bark off him he deceases immediately.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
Consciousness is a production which results from the fermentation and elaboration of unconscious materials; and after a time it deceases, its conditions crumbling into their inorganic grounds again.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
Police only began investigating in March 2024 after being contacted by someone over concerns for "the deceased" at the business.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
The four deceased soldiers' names now appear on Overseas Operations, which says it measures "casualties starting July 7th 2026".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The closer your relationship to the deceased, the lower the tax rate, so the percentage depends on who left you this money.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
But over the years, 41 women directly followed their deceased husbands into the lower chamber.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
It didn’t matter if we knew the deceased or not.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
But the report warns that perceptions of deceasing security of supply could potentially deter investment.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2014
He gaue vnto his sonne Simeon the prouinces of Vvlodimiria and Moscouia: which Simeon deceasing without issue his brother Iohn succeeded, who begate a son called Demetrius.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard
Sinaus and Truuor deceasing without issue, Rurek succeeded and left a sonne behinde him named Igor; who not being of sufficient yeres to beare rule, was committed vnto the protection of his kinsman Olechus.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard
Husband, He be thy wife in heauen: let not thy pure deceasing spirite despise me when we meete, because I am tyrannously polluted.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund
From Nicholas, is descended Carew of Haccumb, who by vertue of this entayle, succeeded also to Hughs portion, as deceasing issuelesse.
From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard
