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[Lat. decem=ten, dent a tus -toothed, dens a tooth.] Having ten teeth or points. de-çěm-fid, a . [Lat. decem=ten, and fido (perf. tense fid i )=to cut, to divide.] Bot .: An epithet applied to the perianths of flowers which are divided into ten divisions or parts; ten-cleft. = ten, locu de sem-locular, adj Latin Edece for seeds. Bot.: Ten-celled; having ten receptacles or cells *de-çem-pēda, s. [Lat., from decem =ten.and surveyors and architects in taking measurement. pes (gen it. ped is ) =a foot.] A ten-foot rod, used by de-çem-pē-dal, a. [Lat. decem =ten, pedal is = of the length of a foot, pes =a foot.] Ten feet in length. dě-çem-vir (pl. de-çěm-vir-i, Lat .; de-çemvirs, Eng .), s. [Lat., from decem =ten, and virza man.] 1. Roman Hist .: One of a body of ten magistrates, in whom was vested the sole government of Rome IMG:content-1924.png:[blocks in formation] "And must I own, she said, my secret smart, What with more decence were in silence kept?" Dryden: Virgil's Æneid , x. 95, 96. IMG:content-1925.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1926.png:[blocks in formation] "Let all things be done decently and in order."-1 Cor . xiv. 40. 2. With decency; without breach of decorum. "Such gifts as we shall bring, for gifts demand That grace, nor can be decently ref us'd." 3. Without obscenity, immodesty, or ribaldry. 4. Moderately, tolerably well, pa ably. de'-çent-ne , *dē-çent-ne e, s. [Eng. decent; -ne .] Decency, decorum. IMG:content-1927.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1928.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1929.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A state of being deceived, misled, or deluded. "And fall into deception unaware." Milton: P. L. , ix. 362. 3. That which deceives or misleads; a deceit, a fraud. see DECEIT. dě-çěp-tious, a. [Lat. deceptus = a deceit.] Deceitful, deceiving, deceptive. “.. those organs had deceptious functions." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , v. 2. dě-çěp-tive, a. [Lat. decept ( us ); Eng. adj. suff. -ive.] Deceitful, deceiving, cheating, false, mis- leading. IMG:content-1930.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1931.png:[blocks in formation] or any one who has to exercise authority; a resolute character is e ential for one who is engaged in dangerous enterprises. Pericles was a man of a decided temper which was well fitted to direct the affairs of government in a season of turbulence and disquietude; Titus Manlius Torquatus dis- played himself to be a man of a determined char- acter, when he put to death his victorious son for a breach of military discipline; Brutus, the murderer of Cæsar, was a man of resolute temper." (2) He thus discriminates between decided and decisive: " Decided marks that which is actually decided; decisive that which appertains to decision . Decided is employed for persons or things; decisive is decided ; a sentence, a judgment, or a victory is only for things. A person's aversion or attachment decisive. A man of a decided character always adopts decisive measures. It is right to be decidedly adverse to everything which is immoral; we should be cautious not to pronounce decisively on any point where we are not perfectly clear and well grounded in our opinion." ( Crabb : Eng. Synon.) dě-çid-ěd-lý, adv . [Eng. decided ; -ly.] In a decided manner; clearly, plainly, unmistakably. men decidedly superior to the generality of the people."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. iii. *dě-çide-ment, *des-cide-ment, s. [Eng. de- 2. To determine a question or dispute; to settle, cide; -ment.] A decision, a deciding. to adjudge. IMG:content-1932.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1933.png:[blocks in formation] so decidingly concludeth," .-Browne: Vul- gar Errors , bk. vii., ch. xiii. dě-çid-u-a, s . [Lat. deciduus .] IMG:content-1934.png:[blocks in formation] parturition. It has a threefold division, the larger forming the immediate lining of the uterine cavity, second the decidua reflera (turned-back decidua), fractions, but for convenience applied by a dot of and the third the decidua serotina (latest decidua): usuallypmitted, and its place side of as many which part with a decidua after parturition. In addition to man, the Quadruman a, Cheir- opter a, Insect i vor a and Rodent i a have such a decidua. dë çīd'-ěd, pa . par . or a. [DECIDE.] A. As pa . par .: In senses corresponding to those dec i duit as , from deciduus .] The quality of being IMG:content-1935.png:[blocks in formation] the left hand side where the number of figures in the numerator is not equal to that of the ciphers in the denominator. measure. A measure, the unit of whecimalivmed ut ten equal parts. IMG:content-1936.png:[blocks in formation] decimalism A. Ordinary Language: I. Literally: IMG:content-1937.png:[blocks in formation] "They deciphered Latin inscriptions." -Macaulay . Hist. Eng ., ch. iv. 2. To read or explain bad or indistinct writing. *II. Figuratively: 1. To discover, to explore, to investigate. "The better deciphering of the River of Plate, -Hackluyt: Voyages, vol. iii., p. 763. 2. To explain, to make clear, to unfold, to unravel, to interpret. the spirit of God has vouchsafed to decipher 3. To discover, to detect, to find out. it."-South: Serm., vol. ii., Serm. 2. "That you are both deciphered, that's the news." Shakesp.. Titus Andronicus, iv. 2. IMG:content-1938.png:[blocks in formation] ne . B. Law: The judgment given in a court of law Crabb thus discriminates between decision, decision conveys judgment, and sentence: " none of the collateral ideas which are expre ed by judgment and sentence : a decision has no respect to the agent; it may be said of one or many; it may be the decision of the court, of the nation, of the public, of a particular body of men, or of a private individual; but a judgment is given in a public court, or among private individuals: a sentence is pa ed in a court of law, or at the bar of the public, A decision specifies none of the circumstances of the action; it may be a legal or an arbitrary de cision; it may be a decision according to one's caprice, or after mature deliberation: a judgment is always pa ed either in a court of law, and con 4. To write or set down in characters; to set forth, to declare. IMG:content-1939.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1940.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1941.png:[blocks in formation] In decimo - sexto ."-Mas singer: Unnat. Combat , i. 2 II. Print . & Bookbinding : A name given to the size of a book, the leaves of which are of the size of one fold of a sheet 26x38 or 24x36 folded so as to make sixteen leaves. It is generally written 16mo. de-çine, s . [Lat. dec (em)=ten, and Eng. suff. ine ( Chem .).] Chem .: A hydrocarbon, C10H18, formed along with Decene by heating turpentine oil for some hours with 20 parts of hydriodic acid. It boils at 170° to 175°. Heated to 280° with hydriodic acid, it is converted into Decane, C10H22, with evolution of a gaseous mixture of 57 parts of hydrogen and 43 parts of propрапе, С3Н8. *dē'-çin-er, dě-çen'-ni-er, dō-zin-er, s. [Lat. decem ten.] A tithing man. He had the oversight of ten households mutually bound by frankpledge for the preservation of the peace. "The tithing man or deciner ."-Ward: Sermons, p. 128. "Then were laws of nece ity invented, that ure deciphered unto him, in the tables of his laws."_ Locke . *dě-çi-pher, *dē-çỹ-pher, s . [DECIPHER, v.] An explanation or key to a cipher. "Baker brought me a decypher."-State Trials (anno 1571), Duke of Norfolk.