decease

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Here she recounted to him all the Accidents of her Life, since her Father’s Decease, to that very Day, e’re Gracelove came to Dinner.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague

I remember I was my self in Lorain, when the News of the Queen's Decease was brought the Pretender by a Servant of L.P.

From Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) by Defoe, Daniel

I was consulted in 1750, three Days before her Decease, about a Woman, who had long endured acute rheumatic Pains.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

The genuine Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, to James Earl of Bothwell, found in his Secretary’s Closet after his Decease, and now in the Possession of a Gentleman at Oxford.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

Decease is the passage of Being into not-being.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)