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Decantation
- noun - the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees
Decerniture
- - A decree or sentence of a court.
Decertation
- - Contest for mastery; contention; strife.
Declamation
- noun - recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
- The action or art of declaiming
- vehement oratory
Declamatory
- adjective - ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
Declaration
- noun - (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction; "his declaration of innocence"
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- a formal public statement; "the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"; "a declaration of independence"
- a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties
- a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)
Declarative
- adjective - a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
- relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements; "indicative mood"
- relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
Declaratory
- adjective - relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
Declination
- noun - (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
- a downward slope or bend
- a polite refusal of an invitation
Declinatory
- - Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.