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Show DE 2. Appealing to the paffions He ha The internal faculties of will and undérftandin run himfelf into his own declamator way, and almoft forgotten that he was now fettin up for imma DE DE poet Dryden Decra'raBLE. adj, [from declare.] Capable of proof ‘This is declarable from the beft writers. Brovn Decrara'rion. z /. [from declare: t. A proclamation or affirmation; ope expreflion; publication His promifes are nothing elfe but declarations what God will do for the good of men Huoker Though wit and learning are certain and habitual perfections of the mind, yet the dec/aratio of them, which alone brings the repute, is fubjeé to a thoufand hazards South There are no where fo plain and full dec/ara¢ions of mercy and love to the fons of men, as ar made in the gofpel Tillotfon 2 An explanation of fomething doubtful Obf{olete 3- [In law.] Declaration (declaratio) i properly the fhewing forth, or layin out, of an adtion perfona in any fuit though it is ufed {fometimes for bot perfonal and real aétions Coapell Decra'RaT1VE. 2d). [from declare.] Making declaration; explanatory The names of things fhould be always taken fro fomething obfervably declarative of their form o nature Greaw 2. Making proclamation To this we may add the wox popali, fo declara tive on the fame fide Saift Decra'raToriLy. adv. [from declaratory.] In the form of a declaration not in a decretory form Taylor decrecing and declaring againft them God is faid not to have left himfelf withou And then come {miling, and declare for fate Decra'rEMENT 2. [ Dryden [from declare. Difcovery; declaration teftimony Cryftal will calefy into eleétricity; that is, int a power to attra& ftraws, or light bodies; an conver th needl freely placed, whic is a de Browwn clarement of very different parts Decra'rRER. 7. /. [from declare.] A proclaimer ; one that makes any thin known DecrLe'Ns10N. 7 /o [declinatio, Latin. 1. Tendency from a greater to a lefs degree of excellence A beauty-waining and diftreflfed widow Ev'n in the afternoon of her beft days Seduc'd the pitch and height of all his thought To bafe declenfion Shakefpeare's Richard 111 Take the piture ofa man in the greennefs and vivacity of his youth, and in. the latter date and declenfion of his drooping years, and you will fcarc know it to belung to the fame perfon South's Sermons 2. Declinatien; defcent ‘We may reafonably allow as much for'the declenfion of the land from that place to the fea, a for the immediate height of the mountain Burnet's Theory 3. Inflexion ; manner of changing nouns Declenfion is only the variation or change of th termination of a noun, whilft it continues to fignif the fame thing Clarke's Latin Grammar DecrLi'NABLE.sadj. [from decline.] Having variety of terminations: as, a defame Brown's Vulgar Errours clinable noun Decra'raTory. adj. [ from declare. ] Decrina'rion. #. /i [declinatio, Latin. Affirmative ; expreflive; not decretory ; 1. Defcent ; change from a better to worfe ftate ; diminution of vigour; denot promiflory, but exprefling fomethin before promifed or decreed. Thus, a decay The queen, hearing of the declination of a mo<laratory law, is a new a& confirming narchy too i f ill a fh woul neve afte hea former law of his fuit Bacon 99 DECLARE Tillotfon «. a [declaro, Latin. 1. To clear; to free from obfcurity : no in ufe "To declare this a little, we muft affume that th furfaces of fuch bodies are exactly fmooth Boyle 2. To make known; to tell evidently an openly It hath been declared unto me of you, that ther are contention Th Both when th And when th away among you 1 Cor. 1o 11 fun by certain figns declare fouth projeéts a ftormy day clearing north will puff the cloud Dryden's Virgil 3. To publith ; to proclaim 1 Chrone xvi. 24 4. To fhew in open view ; to thew an opinica in plain terms In Cefar's army fomewha the foldiers woul have had, yet they would not declare themfelves i it, but only demanded a difcharge Bacon W are a confiderable body, who, upon a prope occafion, would not fail to declare ourfelves. Addif 9o Decra'rE. w. n. Tomake a declaration ; to proclaim fome refolution or opinion, or favour or oppofition: with fo or againft Two general motions all animations have, tha is, their beginning and increafe; and. two more that is, their ftate and declination Brown's Vulgar Erraurs. Hope waits upon the flow'ry prime And fummer, though it be lefs gay Yet is not look'd on as a tim Of declination or decay nation of the head 3. Variation from reitude ; oblique motion; obliquity Suppofing there were a declination of atoms, ye will it not effe¢t what they intend5 for then the do all decline, and fo there will be no mor con courfe than if they did perpendicularly defcend Ray of atoms in their defcent, wa Bentley 4. Deviation from moral rectitude That a peccant creature fhould difapprove an repent of every declination and violatien of the rule of juft an honeft upon the ftock o but infer its own principles, could no South's Sermons 5. Variation from a fixed point nor variatio of the elevation of the pole, notwithftanding wha fome have afferted 6. [In navigation. variog 9- DECLINATION of a Plane [in d alli is an arch of the horizon, compr hende either between the plane and th i vertical circle, if accounted from ¢ eaft or weft ; or elfe between t e meri dian and the plane, if accoun ed frcm the north or fouth laryi Decrina'ror } e fo [from decling Decri'vaTory. An inftrument iy d alling, by which the declination, recj nation, and i determined clination of planes gr amber There are feveral ways to know the feyer l ylanes . but the readieft is by an inftrument c lled a decli natory, fitted to the variation of your place, Moxen 7o DECLI'NE «. 2. [declino, Latin. 1. To lean downward And then with kind embraces, tempting kifis A d with dec/ining head into his bofom Bid him fhed tears, as bein{g overjoy'd Shakefp 2. To deviate ; to run into obliquities Neithe fhalt tho fpea in a caufe to deiy after many, to wreft judgment Exodus, xxiii, z 3. To fhun ; toavoid to do any thing 4. To fink ; to be impaired ; to decay Oppofe to improvement or exaltation Sons at perfect age, and fathers declining, the father fhould be as a ward t0 the fon Shakefpeare Theyll be by th' fire, and prefume to know ‘What's done i" th" capitol; whos like ta rife Who thrives, and who declines Shakefpeare Sometimes nations will dec/ine folow From virtue, which is reafon, that no wrong But juftite, and fome fatal curfe annex'd Deprives them of their outward liberty Milton That empire muft decline Whofe chief fupport and finews are of coin, ZHaller _"And nature, which all a&s of life defigns Not like ill poets, in the laft declines. - Denbari Thus then my lov'd Euryalus appears He looks the prop of my declining years Dryden Autumnal warmth declines Drydet "Ere heat is quite decay'd, or cold begun. Faith and morality are declined among use Swiff God, in his wifdom, hath been pleafed to loa 7o DEcLI'NE. @. 4 1. To bend downward Woodward 'The variation of th needle from the diretion to north an fouth Sawif to bring dowh And now fair Pheebus *gan declinein haft Sperfr His weary waggon to the weftern vale And leaves the femblance of a lover, fix In melancholy deep, with head declin'd And love-dejeéted eyes Thmon 2. To fhun; to avoid; to refufe; to b cautious of He had wifely declined that argument, thouzd i Clarendon their common fermons they gave it Since the mufes do invoke my po 1 fhall no more decline that facred bow'r e l W lie fs tr mi a Where Gloriana, their gr Though I the bufinefs did decline Yet I contriv'd the whole defign this right reafon, difcourfin There is no declination of latitude vaw . eafes, and decays of nature Waller itfelf either neceffary or voluntary or-'i: our declining years with many fufferings, with dif 2. The aét of bending down: as, a decli This declinatio Declare his glory among the heathen B o'cz equator witnefs in the world ; there being fomething fixe ' nfi cl hd Th ar mf gr ' HFI 3 in the nature of men, that will be fure to teftif South's Sermons and declare for him ection. of a noun through it ough 1t Like fawning courtiers, for fuccefs they wait terminations Andreas Alciatus the civilian, and Francifcu de Cordua, have both declaratorily confirmed th Thefe bleflings are not only declaratory of th good pleafure and intention of God towards them but likewife of the natural tendency of the thing 7. [In aftronomy.}: The ftar, we call its thorteft difia;;:':szé And fent them their petition Den dif mth art ie bo ut mi th fai b If it fhoul fo b t ur na i th i i foluble, becauf would not be to render a reafon of'the thingBoypr le pofed, but, in effe, to decline rendering any Could Caroline have been Capt!‘lafie‘} y‘gbefo;e‘ ém ba al th ha fh ld wo thi o rie gl m herj but fhe generoufly declined th becavi w faw the acceptance of them was 1fl°°"fi¢§;dym religion Wha |