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Show DE t c d r [ j a Prce Affurance is writ in a private charaéter, not t Con be read, nor underftood, but by the confcience, t a D i c d o i i t o C t L u p e e [ DECE'RPT. adj which the fpirit of God has vouchfafed to decipbe 2. To unfold; to unravel; to explain : as to decipher an ambiguous [peech 3. To write out; to mark down in charaéters o r c d j a DECE'RPTIBLE & D of k t b That m T t r c d r [ / O T Dece'rR D f o n k t o n p o c a& o n t L o t t e e [ / O T DECERT Could I give you a lively reprefentation of guil and horrour on thi i .i)ECE'SSION. n. [ [deceffio, Latin.A To counteraét a charm ; to difenchant Notwithftanding the help of phyfick, he wa fuddenly cured by decharming the witchceraft Harwey 9% DECI'DE. @. a. [decido, Latin. 1. To fix the event of; to determine The day approach'd when fortune thould decid Th' important enterprize, and give the bride Dryden 2. To determine a queftion or difpute In council oft, and oft in battle tried Betwixt thy mafter and the world decide. Granville Pope [decidentia, Latin. 4. To ftamp ; to chara&erife ; to mark You are both decipher' Shakefpeare For villains mark'd with rape Deci'PHERER. 7 /. [ from decipher. One who explains writings in cipher Drcr'sion. z./. [from decide. 1. Determination of a difference, or of doubt The time approaches That will with due decifion make us kno What we fhall fay we have, and what we owe Shakefpeare Pleafure and reveng Have ears mote deaf than adders to the voic Shakefpeare Of any true decifion -1. The quality of being fhed, or of fallin The number of the undertakers Oir 2. The a& of falling away Men obferving the decidence of their horn, d fall upon the conceit that it annually rotteth away and fucceflively reneweth again Brown's Vaulgar Errours Deci'pER. # /. [from decide. the worth o fome of them, and their zeal to bring the matte to a decifion, are fure arguments of the dignity an Woodward importance of it War is a dire€t appeal to God for the decifion o fome difpute, which can by no other means be de termined. 2. Determination of an event 1, One who determines caufes eterna ou pain pleafure deciphered unto him, in the tables of hi Locke laws g% DeCHA'RM. w.a. [decharmer, French. Who fhall decide, when doctors difagree And foundeft cafuifts doubt an Then were laws of neceffity invented, that f every particular fubje& might find his principa Did departure; a going away hand wrath and decipher eternal vengeance on the other then might I thew you the condition of a finne South hearing himfelf denied by Chrift a difputlc A contention; a ftriving South i Dif ped 5 taken off DE CIDENCE, 7. f D E DE Arterbury Their arms are to the laft decifion bent I cannot think that a jefter or a monkey And fortune labours with the vaft event. Dryden 3. It is ufed in Scotland for a narrative or reports of the proceedings of th The man is no ill decider in common cafes o cour o feflio there property, where party is out of the queftion. Swift Deci'sive adj [fro decide. 2. One who determines quarrels an determinin o powe th Havin 1 in La us id de DECI'DUOUS. adj. differenc conclufive ti not la Falling ; not perennia Such a refle€tion, though it carries nothing perthrough the year feétly decifiwe in it, yet creates a mighty confidenc droll or a puppet, can be proper judges or decider Watts of controverfy In botany the perianthium or calyx, is deRQuincy ¢iduous, with the flower Decr'puousness. n. /. [from deciduons. Aptnefs to fall ; quality of fading onc Di& a year Dr'cimar, adj. {decimus, Latin.] Numbered by ten; multiplied by ten In the way we take no to nam number b millions of millions of millions, itis hard to g beyond eighteen, or, at moft, four and twenty deLocke cimal progreffions, without confufion 70 DE'CIMATE «. a. [decimus, Latin. To tithe ; to take the tenth Decima'rion. n [ [from decimate. 1. Atithing; a feleftion of every tenth b lot or otherwife 2. A felettion by lot of every tenth {oldier, in a general mutiny, for punifhment By decimation and a tithed death Take thou the deftin'd tenth A decimationI will friétly mak Shakefpeare Of all who my Charinus did forfake And of each legion each centurion fhall die Dryden %% DECI'PHER. @, a. [dechiffrer, Fr. 3. To explain that which is written i ciphers ; this is the common ufe Zelmane, that ha the fame c¢haralter in he heart, could eafily decipber i Sidney - in his breaft, and ftrengthens him much in hi Atterbury opinion This they are ready to look upon as a determination on their fide, and decifiwe of the controverf between vyice and virtue Rogers 2. Having the power of fettling any event For on th' event Decifive of this bloody day, depend The fate of kingdoms Philips Deci'sivery. adv. [from decifive.] I a conclufive manner Deci'siveness. #. /o [ from decifive. The power of argument or evidence t terminate any difference, or fettle a event adj. [from decide. Deci'sory Able t determine or decide 7o Deck . a 1. To cover [decken, Dutch. to over{pread Ye mifts and exhalations, that now rif From hill or fteaming lake, dufky or grey In honour to the world's great Author, rife ‘Whether to deck with clouds th' uncolour'd fky Or wet the thirfty earth with falling fhowers Rifing or falling, ftill advance his praife, Milton 2. To drefs ; to array Sweet ornament! that decks a thing divine. Shak Long may'ft thou live to wail thy children's lofs And fee another, as I fee thee now Deck'd in thy rights, as thoy art fall'd in mine Shake[peare She fets to work millions of fpinning worms That in their green fhops weave the fmooth-hair' filk To deck her fons Milton 3. To adorn ; to embellifh But direful, deadly black, both leaf and bloom Fit to adorn the dead, and deck the dreary tomb Stenfer Now the dew with fpangles deck'd the grv'»::wi Dryden A fweeter fpot of earth was never found The god fhall to his vot'ries tei Each confcious tear, each biuthing grace Prior That deck'd dear Eloifa's face Deck 7. /. [from the verb. 1. The floor of a thip Her keel plows hell And deck knocks heaven Ben Fonfor We have al{o raifed our fecond decks, and give more vent thereby to our ordnance, trying on ou Raleigha nether overloop If any, born and bred under deck, had no othe information but whatfenfe affords, he would be o opinion that the {hip was as ftable as a houfe Glanwville On high-rais'd decks the haughty Belgians ride Beneath whofe fhade our humble frigates go Dryden At fun-fet to their thip they make return And fnore fecure on decks till rofy morn Dryden's Iliad 2. Pack of cards piled regularly on eac other Befides gems, many other forts of ftones are regularly figured : the amianthus, of parallel threads as in the pile of velvet; and the felenites, of pa Grew rallel plates, asin a deck of cards DEe'cKER. 7 /. [from deck.] A dreffer one that apparels or adorns; a coverer as a table-dectker 7o DECLA'IM. w. ». [declamo, Lat.] T harangue; to fpeak to the paffions; t rhetoricate ; to fpeak fet orations What are his mifchiefs, conful ? You declai Againft his manners, and corrupt your own Ben Fonfon The fplendid dec/aimings of novices and men o South heat It is ufual for mafters to make their boys de Savift ¢claim on both fides of an argument Drefs up all the virtues in the beauties of oratory, and dec/aim aloud on the praife of goodnefs Watts Decra'iMER. 7 /. [from declaim.] On who makes fpeeches with intent to mov the paflions Your Salamanderis a perpetual declaimer ngainf Addifon jealoufy Decrama'rioN. z. [. [declamatio, Lat. A difcourfe addreffed to the paflions ; a harangue; a fet {fpeech ; a picce of rhetorick The caufe why declamations prevail fo greatly is, for that men fuffer themfelves to be deluded Hooker Thou mayeft forgive his anger, while tho malkeft ufe of the plainnefs of his dec/amation Taylor Decrama'ror. . /. [Latin.] A declaimer a orator ; a rhetorician wled feldo Who could, I fay, hear this generous declamator Tatler without being fired at his noble zeal DecrLa'™MATORY. adj. [declamatorius, La tin. 1. Relating to the pradtice of declaiming pertaining to declamation ; treated i the manner of a rhetorician This a while {ufpended his interment, and became a dec/amatory theme amonglt the religiou men of that age Wotron 2. Appealin |
