To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner - a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul’s.nn1. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Dine : To eat the principal regular meal of the day to take dinner.To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Dice : Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance also, the game played with dice.By a gradual decline, states and communities lose their strength and vigor by progressive decay, they are stripped of their honor, stability, and greatness by a consumption of their resources and vital energy, they are led rapidly on to a completion of their existence. In popular language decline is often used as synonymous with consumption. The health may experience a decline from various causes at any period of life it is naturally subject to decay with the advance of old age consumption may take place at almost any period of life, from disease which wears out the constitution. Decline marks the first stage in a downward progress decay indicates the second stage, and denotes a tendency to ultimate destruction consumption marks a steady decay from an internal exhaustion of strength. pulmonary consumption as, to die of a decline. A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties any wasting disease, esp. (Med.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence as, the decline of a fever. Their fathers lived in the decline of literature. A falling off a tendency to a worse state diminution or decay deterioration also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state as, the decline of life the decline of strength the decline of virtue and religion. To run through from first to last to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. After the first declining of a noun and a verb. Note: Now restricted to such words as have case inflections but formerly it was applied both to declension and conjugation. (Gram.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of as, to decline a noun or an adjective. Could I Decline this dreadful hour Massinger. To put or turn aside to turn off or away from to refuse to undertake or comply with reject to shun to avoid as, to decline an offer to decline a contest he declined any participation with them. He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it. And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale. To bend downward to bring down to depress to cause to bend, or fall. To turn away to shun to refuse - the opposite of accept or consent as, he declined, upon principle.nn1. Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. To turn or bend aside to deviate to stray to withdraw as, a line that declines from straightness conduct that declines from sound morals. That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction to tend to a less perfect state to become diminished or impaired to fail to sink to diminish to lessen as, the day declines virtue declines religion declines business declines. The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly. Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. would decline even to the lowest of his family. To bend, or lean downward to take a downward direction to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc. The people must cede to the government some of their natural rights. Cede : To yield or surrender to give up to resign as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.
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