Deceased definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DECE'ASED, pp. or a ... life. This is used as a passive participle. He is deceased, for he has deceased; he was deceased, for he had deceased. This use of the participle of an intransitive verb is ... infrequent, but the word omitted is really has. He has deceased. It is properly an adjective, like dead. WordNet (r) ...
deceased person definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: someone ... dead person would have done" [syn: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed]
... of former occupants < dead villages > • deadness noun Synonyms: dead, defunct, deceased, departed, late mean devoid of life. dead applies literally to ... cessation of active existence or operation < a defunct television series >. deceased, departed, and late apply to persons who have died recently. deceased is the preferred term in legal use < the estate of the deceased >. departed is used usually as a euphemism < our departed sister ... the verb "to be," referring to the condition of being deceased or the period of death, e. g. 2Sa 12:19 ... the Revised Version (British and American) as "they that are deceased," i.e. the shades of the dead. There are ...
... syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone] 2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone] n 1: someone who is no longer alive ... dead person would have done" [syn: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 14th century 1 ... people who have died. We held services for the departed. = deceased N-PLURAL: the N Moby Thesaurus absconded, absent, ago, antiquated ... and gone, dead body, dead man, dead person, death-struck, deceased, decedent, defunct, deleted, demised, departed this life, destitute of ...
Decedent definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DECE'DENT, n. A deceased person. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: someone who ... dead person would have done" [syn: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Latin decedent-, decedens, present participle of decedere Date: 1599 a deceased person — used chiefly in law Oxford Reference Dictionary n. US Law a deceased person. Etymology: L decedere die: see DECEASE Webster's 1913 ... Webster's 1913 Dictionary Decedent De*ce"dent, n. A deceased person. --Bouvier.
... perform and discharge.] Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. DEFUNCT, n. A dead person; one deceased. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: no longer in ... funt. See Function.] Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. ``Defunct organs.'' --Shak. The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near ... 1913 Dictionary Defunct De*funct", n. A dead person; one deceased. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary If something is defunct, it no ... ADJ Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Dead, deceased, departed, gone. 2. Inoperative, abrogated, cancelled, annulled, dead. Moby Thesaurus ... dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, decided, deleted, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of ...
... plu. [L. sat, satis, enough.] Goods or estate of a deceased person, sufficient to pay the debts of the deceased. But the word sufficient, though expressing the original signification of ... usage, assets are the money, goods or estate of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts ... ancestor; personal assets are the money or goods of the deceased, or debts due to him, which come into the hands ... full. Cf. Assai, Satisfy.] 1. (Law) (a) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts ...
... part of the estate, and the surviving brother of the deceased was considered the natural heir. The right to inherit the ... widow soon became a duty to marry her if the deceased had left no sons, and in case there was no ... the Levirate marriage was regarded as the son of the deceased. This institution is found chiefly among people who hold to ... son of the marriage, since he was reckoned to the deceased, inherited from his putative, not from his real father, thus ... preserved, and the Levirate became limited to cases where the deceased had left no children at all. Frank E. Hirsch
... or schedule of all the goods and chattels of a deceased person. In some of the United States,the inventory must ... the real as well as the personal estate of the deceased. 2. A catalogue of movables. 3. A catalogue of account ... of; as, to inventory the goods and estate of the deceased. 1. To insert or register in an account of goods ... and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person ... as of the goods of a merchant or of a deceased person), roll, schedule, record, account, register. See catalogue. Moby Thesaurus ...
... im, "ghosts," "shades," is translated by "dead," "dead body," and "deceased" in both the King James Version and the Revised Version ... such a subject, different conceptions of the condition of the deceased. In the beginning probably a vague idea of the continuation ... 1Sa 28:13 and perhaps in Isa 14:9.) The deceased are separated from their friends; love and hatred have both ... nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol" (Ec 9:10). The deceased are unable to praise Yahweh (Ps 6:5; 88:10 ... offering and burning of incense, originally an homage to the deceased, became a relief for the mourner (2Ch 16:14; 21 ...
... i. To depart from this life; to die. Gen. Washington deceased, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his age ... 1913 Dictionary Decease De*cease", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Deceased; p. pr. & vb. n. Deceasing.] 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 ...
... or night < late hours > 2. a. living comparatively recently ; now deceased — used of persons < the late John Doe > and often with ... holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop ... 1. Slow, tardy, long delayed. 2. Far advanced. 3. Recently deceased. 4. Recent. II. ad. 1. Tardily, after the proper time ... cold, croaked, current, dated, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, deep into, defunct, delayed, delayed-action, demised, departed, departed this ...
... a panel on which a coat of arms of a deceased person is temporarily displayed Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a large usu. diamond-shaped tablet with a deceased person's armorial bearings, affixed to that person's house ... A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his ... means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called ...