Read full poem →Victrola and records while he lived presented to
him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a
scrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with
Dictionary Entry
Death, departure from life.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. deceasedecease whosedecease owndecease great
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Poetry examples for “decease”
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Read full poem →Portrait of Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States, frem tke last painting taken pre-
vious to kit decease 390
Read full poem →admire him, to offer to the memory of the Author, not long after his
decease, I have thought I should do you service in presenting them
unto you now; onely whereas, had I placed them in the beginning, they
Read full poem →'Till he, pressed down by his own weighty name,
Did, like the vestal, under spoils decease.[27]
Read full poem →An everlasting wash of air--
Rome's ghost since her decease. 25
Read full poem →As several notices of the death of this great and good
man were published soon after his decease, I will here
insert the most prominent of them, to show how calmly
Read full poem →asserts, that the Prospect of Death was written by that person, many
years after lord Roscommon's decease; as also, that the paraphrase of the
Prayer of Jeremy was written by a gentleman of the name of Southcourt,
Read full poem →london, also my best gowne and my red cloth petty coate
and my enameled ring, and after her decease my will
is that my grand daughter Hannah Gallop shall have
Read full poem →That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
Read full poem →Find no determination; then you were
Yourself again, after yourself's decease,
When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.