decliningn.

/dɪˈklʌɪnɪŋ/

Etymology: -ing suffix¹.

The action of decline v. (Formerly frequent as a noun; now usually gerundial.)

1. Turning aside, falling away; = declension n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun]

degeneration?1481

declining1526

declination1533

depravation1561

villainy1564

declension1597

depravedness1623

decadency1632

degenerateness1640

depravity1643

depravement1645

degradation1663

degeneracy1664

degenerousness1678

marasmus1681

debasednessa1720

decadencea1734

demoralization1797

downgrade1857

decadentism1949

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > dereliction of duty > [noun]

defaulta1250

fail1297

declining1526

defection1532

declination1533

defect1540

delinquishment1593

declension1597

secession1601

delinquency1606

delinquence1613

deliquity1682

dereliction1778

derelictness1888

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of one's party or principles

recreandisea1425

declining1526

declination1533

back-turning1535

defect1540

revoltc1576

falling off1577

apostasy1578

tergiversation1583

declension1597

recreancy1602

starting1602

recreantness1611

recession1614

turncoating1624

recreancea1632

diffidation1640

withdrawment1640

tergiversating1654

turning1665

ratting1789

renegadism1823

turncoatery1841

defection1884

turncoatism1889

1526 Pilgr. Perf. (1531) 34 b Our general labour must stande in.. declynynge from euyll, and in dylygent workynge of good.

1574 T. Cartwright tr. W. Travers (title) Full and plaine declaration of ecclesiasticall discipline..and off the declininge off the churche off England.

1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant iv. 347 In times of general declining.

1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 39 Partiall and temporary declinings in men from their said integritie.

2. Avoidance (obsolete); non-acceptance; refusal.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > courteous refusal

declining1607

declination1618

declinement1680

declension1817

declinal1837

declinature1850

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 141 If any fall, or sit downe on the ground & cast away his weapon, they bite him not; taking that declining for submissiue pacification.

a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover v. i. 173 in 3 New Playes (1655) There is now No contradiction or declining left, I must and will go on.

1786 F. Burney Diary 7 Aug. (1842) III. 64 To save myself from more open and awkward declinings.

3. Gradual sinking or descent; downward slope or declivity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down

settlingc1440

sinking1440

declining1601

subsiding1607

subsidency1650

sedation1661

sinking-in1678

subsidence1754

sinkage1783

settlement1793

the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > downwards

fall1538

downwith1593

declining1601

devexity1601

devex1627

declension1640

proneness1686

dip1708

versant1859

1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. A5 Being once brought to that declyning, they neuer leaue roulling, vntill they come to the bottome of vnhappinesse.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 145^v Vpon the declyning of a hill the house is seated.

a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiii. 139 Plinie, in the deriuation of water, requireth one cubit of declining, in 240 foot of proceeding.

a1703 J. Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 9 A short and dubious bliss On the declining of a precipice.

4. Of the sun, etc.: Descent towards setting; hence of the day, one's life, etc.: Drawing to its close; = decline n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health

failinga1382

sickeninga1382

wasting1398

downhielda1400

dissolutionc1400

debilitationa1492

defailing1502

effeeblishing1540

faintingc1540

effeeblishment1545

enervationa1575

feeblishing1574

declining1588

decay1609

flagging1611

labefaction1620

feebling1624

sinking1625

deading1645

dejection1652

fail1654

emperiment1674

decline1770

sapping1825

breakdown1858

attenuation1868

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset

sunsetOE

settle-gangc1000

evensongc1330

sun going downa1382

setc1386

decline14..

sun restc1405

sun gate down1440

sunsetting1440

sun sitting?a1475

falling1555

sunsetting1575

downsetting1582

sunfall1582

declining1588

sun go down1595

tramontation1599

vail1609

daylight gate1613

sundown1620

set of day1623

dayset1633

day shutting1673

sky setting1683

sun-under1865

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. I viij Ye hicht and declyning of ye sone.

a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) xxvii. 92 The going downe of our strength, and the declining of our age.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) i. 64 In the declining of the year 1616.

5. Falling off, decay, decreasing, waning, etc.; = decline n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > declining or falling off

declinea1327

fadea1400

paira1400

declining1481

vading1570

fall1590

hield1599

languishment1617

decay1636

defalcation1649

decidence1655

fall-off1676

falling off1761

fallaway1879

downswing1922

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition

rureOE

ebbingc1200

fallc1225

declinea1327

downfallingc1330

downfalla1400

fall of mana1400

wanea1400

ruinc1405

wrack1426

inclinationc1450

declination1533

labefactation1535

ebb1555

falling off1577

declining1581

inclining1590

declension1604

downset1608

neck-breaka1658

overseta1658

lapsing1665

reducement1667

lapse1680

labefaction1792

downshift1839

subsidence1839

downgrade1857

downturn1858

downslide1889

downswing1922

turn-down1957

tail-off1975

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. i. 131 Yf the sonne and therthe were of one lyke gretenesse, this shadowe shold haue none ende, but shold be all egal without declynyng.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 159 All that..write of the declining and ruine of the Romain Empire.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 2 Rest content, nor our declining rue.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 39* The next declining is, when law becomes now too straight for the secular manners, and those too loose for the cincture of law.

6. Grammar. = declension n. 4; formerly in wider sense: Inflection, including conjugation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun]

accidenta1504

declining1565

flexion1614

inflection1668

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun] > declension

declinationc1440

declension1565–78

declining1565

obliquity1668

1565–78 T. Cooper Thesaurus Introd. Nownes and verbes maye be knowne by their declining.

1599 R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. 35 The verbes Irregular (in which is found hardnes and difficultie to the learner for their declining).

1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 53 There are certaine Adjectiues which haue two manner of endings and declinings..both in us, and in is.

1720 J. Clarke Ess. Educ. Youth 84 The Article, if plain, is of no manner of Use for the Declining of Nouns.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

decliningadj.

Etymology: -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈclining.

That declines: see the verb.

a. Having a downward inclination, sloping downwards; oblique.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping > downwards

devexc1420

declining1553

declined1591

declivy1609

declive1635

prone1655

declivous1684

pronate1703

coping1750

downgrade1858

declinous1864

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Bv^v It standeth in a place somewhat declyning.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. Defs. sig. Piv ^v This perpendicular..in directe solides falleth within the body, and vppon the base, but in declyning solides, it falleth without the bodies and bases.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. ii. 18 The height of the great Pyramid..is by its perpendicular..499 feet, by its declining ascent, 693 feet.

1792 Copper-plate Mag. No. 1 The mansion..is approached by a circular sweep through a declining lawn.

1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 61 The Volga, which flows..through a gradually-declining valley.

b. Dialling. Deviating from the prime vertical or meridian: see declination n. 9.

ΚΠ

1593 T. Fale Horologiographia f. 4 All such plats as behold not some principall part of the world directly, are called Declining. The quantity of their declination is found out thus.

1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet (1707) ii. 165 In all declining Dials, the Elevation of whose Pole is less than the Sun's greatest Declination.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xvi. 25 All Declining Planes lie in some Azimuth, and cross one another in the Zenith and Nadir.

1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 311.

2. Bending or bowing down; drooping.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [adjective] > bending down

bowingc1440

bending1567

declininga1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. i. 117 With..tempting kisses, And with declining head.

1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 605 Pedicles declining, Flower-scales cloven.

1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xix. 28 Declining was his attitude.

3. Of the sun: Sinking towards setting; transferred of the day: Drawing to its close.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [adjective] > setting

decliningc1620

welking1630

westerning1851

sunsetty1860

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [adjective] > ending

decliningc1620

waning1767

deciduous1770

c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i. xliii. 375 The Sun peep'd in with his declininge raye.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 Nor end their Work, but with declining Day.

1833 H. Martineau Messrs. Vanderput & Snoek ix. 133 The beams of the declining sun glistering on the heaving surface.

1834 S. Rogers Poems 126 Till declining day, Thro' the green trellis shoots a crimson ray.

a. Falling off from vigour, excellence, or prosperity; becoming weaker or worse; failing, waning, decaying (in health, fortunes, etc.); in a decline.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > falling from prosperous or thriving condition

drooping1553

downhill1565

downfalling1573

declining1597

stooping1608

sinking1612

waninga1616

deliquescent1937

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > making or tending to

downhill1565

declining1597

deformative1641

deteriorative1800

exhaustive1817

worsening1835

deteriorating1836

degenerative1846

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 241 In this declining land.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes To Rdr. The long and still declining state of the Christian commonweale.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vii. 94 I speak it to every declining tradesman.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 401 The declining health of the emperor Constantius.

1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. iii. 121 This desolation is no accident of a declining empire.

b. Of a person's age, life, years, etc. (Mixture of senses 3, 4.)

ΚΠ

1614 S. Latham Falconry i. viii. 31 Towards their declining age.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 483 Thus looks the Prop of my declining Years!

1780 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 18 Apr. Declining life is a very awful scene.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 7 Such a sadness was the natural effect of declining years and failing powers.

5. That declines (jurisdiction); that refuses to accept, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective]

refusing1409

negative1576

declining1639

declinatory1673

ungiving1682

negativing1776

disavowing1828

1639 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 155 A present excommunicating of all the declyning Bishops.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	declining
释义	decliningn. /dɪˈklʌɪnɪŋ/ Etymology: -ing suffix¹. The action of decline v. (Formerly frequent as a noun; now usually gerundial.) 1. Turning aside, falling away; = declension n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] degeneration?1481 declining1526 declination1533 depravation1561 villainy1564 declension1597 depravedness1623 decadency1632 degenerateness1640 depravity1643 depravement1645 degradation1663 degeneracy1664 degenerousness1678 marasmus1681 debasednessa1720 decadencea1734 demoralization1797 downgrade1857 decadentism1949 the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > dereliction of duty > [noun] defaulta1250 fail1297 declining1526 defection1532 declination1533 defect1540 delinquishment1593 declension1597 secession1601 delinquency1606 delinquence1613 deliquity1682 dereliction1778 derelictness1888 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of one's party or principles recreandisea1425 declining1526 declination1533 back-turning1535 defect1540 revoltc1576 falling off1577 apostasy1578 tergiversation1583 declension1597 recreancy1602 starting1602 recreantness1611 recession1614 turncoating1624 recreancea1632 diffidation1640 withdrawment1640 tergiversating1654 turning1665 ratting1789 renegadism1823 turncoatery1841 defection1884 turncoatism1889 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (1531) 34 b Our general labour must stande in.. declynynge from euyll, and in dylygent workynge of good. 1574 T. Cartwright tr. W. Travers (title) Full and plaine declaration of ecclesiasticall discipline..and off the declininge off the churche off England. 1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant iv. 347 In times of general declining. 1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 39 Partiall and temporary declinings in men from their said integritie. 2. Avoidance (obsolete); non-acceptance; refusal. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > courteous refusal declining1607 declination1618 declinement1680 declension1817 declinal1837 declinature1850 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 141 If any fall, or sit downe on the ground & cast away his weapon, they bite him not; taking that declining for submissiue pacification. a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover v. i. 173 in 3 New Playes (1655) There is now No contradiction or declining left, I must and will go on. 1786 F. Burney Diary 7 Aug. (1842) III. 64 To save myself from more open and awkward declinings. 3. Gradual sinking or descent; downward slope or declivity. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down settlingc1440 sinking1440 declining1601 subsiding1607 subsidency1650 sedation1661 sinking-in1678 subsidence1754 sinkage1783 settlement1793 the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > downwards fall1538 downwith1593 declining1601 devexity1601 devex1627 declension1640 proneness1686 dip1708 versant1859 1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. A5 Being once brought to that declyning, they neuer leaue roulling, vntill they come to the bottome of vnhappinesse. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 145^v Vpon the declyning of a hill the house is seated. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiii. 139 Plinie, in the deriuation of water, requireth one cubit of declining, in 240 foot of proceeding. a1703 J. Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 9 A short and dubious bliss On the declining of a precipice. 4. Of the sun, etc.: Descent towards setting; hence of the day, one's life, etc.: Drawing to its close; = decline n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health failinga1382 sickeninga1382 wasting1398 downhielda1400 dissolutionc1400 debilitationa1492 defailing1502 effeeblishing1540 faintingc1540 effeeblishment1545 enervationa1575 feeblishing1574 declining1588 decay1609 flagging1611 labefaction1620 feebling1624 sinking1625 deading1645 dejection1652 fail1654 emperiment1674 decline1770 sapping1825 breakdown1858 attenuation1868 the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset sunsetOE settle-gangc1000 evensongc1330 sun going downa1382 setc1386 decline14.. sun restc1405 sun gate down1440 sunsetting1440 sun sitting?a1475 falling1555 sunsetting1575 downsetting1582 sunfall1582 declining1588 sun go down1595 tramontation1599 vail1609 daylight gate1613 sundown1620 set of day1623 dayset1633 day shutting1673 sky setting1683 sun-under1865 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. I viij Ye hicht and declyning of ye sone. a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) xxvii. 92 The going downe of our strength, and the declining of our age. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) i. 64 In the declining of the year 1616. 5. Falling off, decay, decreasing, waning, etc.; = decline n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > declining or falling off declinea1327 fadea1400 paira1400 declining1481 vading1570 fall1590 hield1599 languishment1617 decay1636 defalcation1649 decidence1655 fall-off1676 falling off1761 fallaway1879 downswing1922 the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition rureOE ebbingc1200 fallc1225 declinea1327 downfallingc1330 downfalla1400 fall of mana1400 wanea1400 ruinc1405 wrack1426 inclinationc1450 declination1533 labefactation1535 ebb1555 falling off1577 declining1581 inclining1590 declension1604 downset1608 neck-breaka1658 overseta1658 lapsing1665 reducement1667 lapse1680 labefaction1792 downshift1839 subsidence1839 downgrade1857 downturn1858 downslide1889 downswing1922 turn-down1957 tail-off1975 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. i. 131 Yf the sonne and therthe were of one lyke gretenesse, this shadowe shold haue none ende, but shold be all egal without declynyng. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 159 All that..write of the declining and ruine of the Romain Empire. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 2 Rest content, nor our declining rue. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 39* The next declining is, when law becomes now too straight for the secular manners, and those too loose for the cincture of law. 6. Grammar. = declension n. 4; formerly in wider sense: Inflection, including conjugation. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun] accidenta1504 declining1565 flexion1614 inflection1668 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun] > declension declinationc1440 declension1565–78 declining1565 obliquity1668 1565–78 T. Cooper Thesaurus Introd. Nownes and verbes maye be knowne by their declining. 1599 R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. 35 The verbes Irregular (in which is found hardnes and difficultie to the learner for their declining). 1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 53 There are certaine Adjectiues which haue two manner of endings and declinings..both in us, and in is. 1720 J. Clarke Ess. Educ. Youth 84 The Article, if plain, is of no manner of Use for the Declining of Nouns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). decliningadj. Etymology: -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈclining. That declines: see the verb. 1. a. Having a downward inclination, sloping downwards; oblique. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping > downwards devexc1420 declining1553 declined1591 declivy1609 declive1635 prone1655 declivous1684 pronate1703 coping1750 downgrade1858 declinous1864 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Bv^v It standeth in a place somewhat declyning. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. Defs. sig. Piv ^v This perpendicular..in directe solides falleth within the body, and vppon the base, but in declyning solides, it falleth without the bodies and bases. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. ii. 18 The height of the great Pyramid..is by its perpendicular..499 feet, by its declining ascent, 693 feet. 1792 Copper-plate Mag. No. 1 The mansion..is approached by a circular sweep through a declining lawn. 1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 61 The Volga, which flows..through a gradually-declining valley. b. Dialling. Deviating from the prime vertical or meridian: see declination n. 9. ΚΠ 1593 T. Fale Horologiographia f. 4 All such plats as behold not some principall part of the world directly, are called Declining. The quantity of their declination is found out thus. 1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet (1707) ii. 165 In all declining Dials, the Elevation of whose Pole is less than the Sun's greatest Declination. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xvi. 25 All Declining Planes lie in some Azimuth, and cross one another in the Zenith and Nadir. 1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 311. 2. Bending or bowing down; drooping. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [adjective] > bending down bowingc1440 bending1567 declininga1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. i. 117 With..tempting kisses, And with declining head. View more context for this quotation 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 605 Pedicles declining, Flower-scales cloven. 1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xix. 28 Declining was his attitude. 3. Of the sun: Sinking towards setting; transferred of the day: Drawing to its close. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [adjective] > setting decliningc1620 welking1630 westerning1851 sunsetty1860 the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [adjective] > ending decliningc1620 waning1767 deciduous1770 c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i. xliii. 375 The Sun peep'd in with his declininge raye. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 Nor end their Work, but with declining Day. View more context for this quotation 1833 H. Martineau Messrs. Vanderput & Snoek ix. 133 The beams of the declining sun glistering on the heaving surface. 1834 S. Rogers Poems 126 Till declining day, Thro' the green trellis shoots a crimson ray. 4. a. Falling off from vigour, excellence, or prosperity; becoming weaker or worse; failing, waning, decaying (in health, fortunes, etc.); in a decline. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > falling from prosperous or thriving condition drooping1553 downhill1565 downfalling1573 declining1597 stooping1608 sinking1612 waninga1616 deliquescent1937 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > making or tending to downhill1565 declining1597 deformative1641 deteriorative1800 exhaustive1817 worsening1835 deteriorating1836 degenerative1846 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 241 In this declining land. View more context for this quotation 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes To Rdr. The long and still declining state of the Christian commonweale. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vii. 94 I speak it to every declining tradesman. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 401 The declining health of the emperor Constantius. 1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. iii. 121 This desolation is no accident of a declining empire. b. Of a person's age, life, years, etc. (Mixture of senses 3, 4.) ΚΠ 1614 S. Latham Falconry i. viii. 31 Towards their declining age. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 483 Thus looks the Prop of my declining Years! 1780 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 18 Apr. Declining life is a very awful scene. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 7 Such a sadness was the natural effect of declining years and failing powers. 5. That declines (jurisdiction); that refuses to accept, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective] refusing1409 negative1576 declining1639 declinatory1673 ungiving1682 negativing1776 disavowing1828 1639 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 155 A present excommunicating of all the declyning Bishops. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1481adj.1553
随便看	conceive well, ill, etc of conceived conceivement conceiver conceivers conceives conceiving concelebrate concelebrated concelebrates concelebrating concelebration concelebrations concelising concement concend concent concenter concentered concentering concenters concentful concention concentrado concentralization