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
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Further testing for communicable deceases is being performed.”
From Time ● Oct. 29, 2015
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 William Rounseville Alger
Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
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 — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saying anything negative about any member of the royal family, about the institution of the monarchy, even about long deceased kings, or in one case, the king's dog, has resulted in prosecutions.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Mr. Logan warns the careless away from parking on gravesites and prevents bridal photo shoots from disturbing those who have come to mourn the more recently deceased.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Later in the day, a California Highway Patrol helicopter located a deceased climber on that route, but a storm system soon moved into the area, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Glasgow Life, which manages Kelvingrove, said it had taken the decision to remove the painted coffin containing the remains of Nekht in the "absence of consent from the deceased individual or their ancestors".
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a newly deceased person must swear to the gods that he hasn’t cheated his neighbor by stealing his land.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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But the report warns that perceptions of deceasing security of supply could potentially deter investment.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2014
Beyond a question; since Paul stateth, in his missive, that he saw much of this same ambassador, living greatly in his society, Eugenius deceasing as lately as 1477.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
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 Richard Carew
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 Edmund Gosse
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 Richard Hakluyt
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