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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Decease

/dĭs-ēs'/ · De·cease · IPA /dɪˈsiːs/
01 n. Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
  1. 1.
    Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
    “His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.” — Luke ix. 31.
    “And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase.” — Spenser.
Syn. Death; departure; dissolution; demise; release. See Death.
02 v. i. To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
imp. & p. p. Deceased; p. pr. & vb. n. Deceasing
  1. 1.
    To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
    “She's dead, deceased, she's dead.” — Shak.
    “When our summers have deceased.” — Tennyson.
    “Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.” — Emerson.