Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go away; depart; secede.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To withdraw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
withdraw .
Etymologies
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Latin dēcēdō ("I withdraw").
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Examples
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Met. 91 t iux tarde decede - re visa, PraecipUatur aquis.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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CaL Aug. 1273. (a) QyK fentencia in Od - denfes & Vatnsfiordenfes lata, aliorum ita animos & audaciam fregit, ut jurę, qvod in talia pracdiahabere fibivififunt) in pra? fcntiarum decede - rent.
Finni Johannæi ... Historia ecclesiastica Islandiæ [ed. by J. Finnsson]. Finnr Jónsson 1774
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