deconcentration (dekonsentrashon)

[ deconcoctt (de-kon-kokt'), v. t. [ concoct.] To decompose or resolve. Since these Benedictines have had their crudities deconcocted. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. 267. deconsecrate (dē-kon'sē-krāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. deconsecrated, ppr. deconsecrating . [ consecrate . Cf. F. déconsacrer .] To deprive of the character conferred by consecration; secularize. Though it was po ible to sweep the idols out of the Kaaba, it was not so easy to deconsecrate the spot, but far more convenient to give it a new sanction. Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 93. IMG:content-2182.png:[blocks in formation] er Pointed style, from which it was developed, by the more flow ing lines of its tracery, especial ly windows, by the more in tricate and le conventional combinations of its foliage, by the greater elaboration of its capitals, moldings, finials, etc., and generally by a style of ornamentation more naturalistic and as a rule le in accordance with true artistic prinof Bishop Bridport, Salisbury Cathedral, Eng Decorated Architecture of the period of transition to the later Decorated style. Tomb ciples. The Decoland. style has The Century , XXXI. 554. -ive.] 1. Of or pertaining to decoration; concerned with decoration: as, decorative art. Small objects which are attractive in colour and shape will naturally be used by the savage for decorative purposes. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 413. 2. Of an ornamental nature; decorating; embellishing. The great choir-window of Lich field is the noblest gla work I remember to have seen. I have met nowhere colors so chaste and grave, and yet so rich and true, or a cluster of designs so piously decorative , and yet so pic H. James, Jr. , Trans. Sketches, p. 24. torial. Decorative art. See art 2. - Decorative notes, in mu sic, short notes added to the e ential notes of a melody by way of embellishment. decorativene (dek'ō-rā-tiv-nes), n. The quality of being decorative.