Part 2819

<hw>De*clare"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with <i>for</i> or <i>against</i>; <as>as, victory <ex>declares</ex> against the allies</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Like fawning courtiers, for success they wait, And then come smiling, and <b>declare</b> for fate. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; <as>as, the plaintiff <ex>declares</ex> in trespass</as>.</def>

<h1>Declaredly</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>De*clar"ed*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Avowedly; explicitly.</def>

<h1>Declaredness</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>De*clar"ed*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being declared.</def>

<h1>Declarement</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>De*clare"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Declaration.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Declarer</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>De*clar"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.</def>

<i>Udall.</i>

<h1>Declension</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>De*clen"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Apparently corrupted fr. F. <ets>d\'82clinaison</ets>, fr. L. <ets>declinatio</ets>, fr. <ets>declinare</ets>. See <er>Decline</er>, and cf. <er>Declination</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>declension</b> of the land from that place to the sea. <i>T. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; <as>as, the <ex>declension</ex> of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.</as></def>

<blockquote>Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base <b>declension</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; <as>as, the <ex>declension</ex> of a nomination</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; <as>as, the first or the second <ex>declension</ex> of nouns, adjectives, etc.</as> </def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>Rehearsing a word as declined.</def>

<note>&hand; The nominative was held to be the primary and original form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the variations, or <i>oblique</i> cases, were regarded as fallings (hence called <i>casus</i>, cases, or fallings) from the nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from the noun's upright form, was called a <i>declension</i>.</note>

<i>Harris.</i>

<cs><col>Declension of the needle</col>, <cd>declination of the needle.</cd></cs>

<h1>Declensional</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>De*clen"sion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Belonging to declension.</def>

<blockquote><b>Declensional</b> and syntactical forms. <i>M. Arnold.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Declinable</h1> <Xpage=377>