Definition of decease

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Decease (v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.

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Succiduous :: Successor (n.) One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king..
Anniversary :: Anniversary (n.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope..
Demise :: Demise (n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person..
Bury :: Bury (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume..
Posthumously :: Posthumously (adv.) In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.
Predecease :: Predecease (n.) The death of one person or thing before another.
Ghost :: Ghost (n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
Devastation :: Devastation (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
Lar :: Lar (n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house..
Probate :: Probate (n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved..
Defunct :: Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized..
Go :: Go (v. i.) To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
Annat :: Annat (n.) A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease..
Departure :: Departure (n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.
Annual :: Annual (n.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day..
Defunct :: Defunct (n.) A dead person; one deceased.
Decease :: Decease (v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
Tombstone :: Tombstone (n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased..
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