Word Meanings - DECLENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet. 2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue,

Additional info about word: DECLENSION

1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet. 2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. Shak. 3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. Rehearsing a word as declined. Note: The nominative was held to be the primary and original form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings (hence called casus, 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 declension. Harris. Declension of the needle, declination of the needle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECLENSION)

• Decay
• Declension
• waning
• sinking
• wasting
• decrease
• corruption
• decadence
• putrefaction
• rottenness
• dry rot
• consumption
• decline

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DECLENSION)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend

Related words: (words related to DECLENSION)

• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• WANING
  The act or process of waning, or decreasing. This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses. Bp. Hall.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSUMPTION
  A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WAN
  Won. Chaucer.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• WANDY
  Long and flexible, like a wand. Brockett.
• SINK
  sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. sökkva, Dan. 1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• SEAWAND
  See GIRDLES
• JUWANSA
  The camel's thorn. See under Camel.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• SWANNERY
  A place where swans are bred. "The largest swannery in England." Encyc. Brit.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• SWANKIE; SWANKY
  An active and clever young fellow. Sir W. Scott.