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<hw>De*clin"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82clinable</ets>. See <er>Decline</er>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; <as>as, <ex>declinable</ex> parts of speech</as>.</def>

<h1>Declinal</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>De*clin"al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Declining; sloping.</def>

<h1>Declinate</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>Dec"li*nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>declinatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>declinare</ets>. See <er>Decline</er>.]</ety> <def>Bent downward or aside; <fld>(Bot.)</fld> bending downward in a curve; declined.</def>

<h1>Declination</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>Dec`li*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>declinatio</ets> a bending aside, an avoiding: cf. F. <ets>d\'82clination</ets> a decadence. See <er>Declension</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or state of bending downward; inclination; <as>as, <ex>declination</ex> of the head</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.</def> "The <i>declination</i> of monarchy."

<i>Bacon.</i>

<blockquote>Summer . . . is not looked on as a time Of <b>declination</b> or decay. <i>Waller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>declination</b> of atoms in their descent. <i>Bentley.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Every <b>declination</b> and violation of the rules. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.</def>

<blockquote>The queen's <b>declination</b> from marriage. <i>Stow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Dialing)</fld> <def>The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>The act of inflecting a word; declension. See <er>Decline</er>, <i>v. t.</i>, 4.</def>

<cs><col>Angle of declination</col>, <cd>the angle made by a descending line, or plane, with a horizontal plane.</cd> -- <col>Circle of declination</col>, <cd>a circle parallel to the celestial equator.</cd> -- <col>Declination compass</col> <fld>(Physics)</fld>, <cd>a compass arranged for finding the declination of the magnetic needle.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Declination of the compass</col> &or; <col>needle</col></mcol>, <cd>the horizontal angle which the magnetic needle makes with the true north-and-south line.</cd></cs>

<h1>Declinator</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>Dec"li*na`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82clinateur</ets>. See <er>Decline</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A dissentient.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hacket.</i>

<h1>Declinatory</h1> <Xpage=377>

<hw>De*clin"a*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>declinatorius</ets>, fr. L. <ets>declinare</ets>: cf. F. <ets>d\'82clinatoire</ets>.]</ety> <def>Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.</def>

<i>Blackstone.</i>