decease

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

I did not ask what she meant by “all being over,” but I suppose she referred to the expected decease of her mother and the gloomy sequel of funeral rites.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

This was reiterated in the Vatican’s 2016 instruction “Ad resurgendum cum Christo”: “The Church continues to prefer the practice of burying the bodies of the deceased, because this shows a greater esteem towards the deceased.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

"Were they made earlier and kept until the moment of death? Were they painted at the time the deceased was buried? Were they panels that were hung in homes, in residences?" he asked.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Instead, they may have deliberately chosen a particular location and returned to it repeatedly to lay deceased members of their community to rest.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

The deceased was the tragic hero, the survivors the innocent victims; there was the omnipresence of the deity, strophe and antistrophe of the chorus of mourners led by the preacher.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

But the report warns that perceptions of deceasing security of supply could potentially deter investment.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2014

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 Richard Hakluyt

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

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

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