Declinable(a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
Declinal(a.) Declining; sloping.
Declinate(a.) Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.
Declination(n.) The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
Declination(n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
Declination(n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
Declination(n.) The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
Declination(n.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
Declination(n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
Declination(n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
Declinator(n.) An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
Declinator(n.) A dissentient.
Decline(v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
Decline(v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
Decline(v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
Decline(v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
Decline(v. i.) A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
Decline(v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
Decline(v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
Decline(v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
Decline(v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.
Decline(v. t.) To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
Decline(v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
Decline(v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
Declined(a.) Declinate.
Declined(imp. & p. p.) of Decline
Decliner(n.) He who declines or rejects.
Declining(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decline
Declinous(a.) Declinate.
Words within declinate