Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 15
Deconsecrate (v. t.) 把……改作俗用；使不聖潔 To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
Deconsecrate (v.) Remove the consecration from a person or an object [syn: {desecrate}, {unhallow}, {deconsecrate}] [ant: {bless}, {consecrate}, {hallow}, {sanctify}].
Decorament (n.) 裝飾 Ornament. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Decorated (imp. & p. p.) of Decorate.
Decorating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decorate.
Decorate (v. t.) 裝飾，修飾 [（+with）]；粉刷；油漆；授勛（章）給 [（+for）] (v. i.) 裝飾，布置 To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.
Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets decorated her arms. -- Thackeray.
Syn: To adorn; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace. See Adorn.
Decorated style (Arch.), A name given by some writers to the perfected English Gothic architecture; it may be considered as having flourished from about a. d. 1300 to a. d. 1375.
Decorate (v.) Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: {decorate}, {adorn}, {grace}, {ornament}, {embellish}, {beautify}].
Decorate (v.) Be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [syn: {deck}, {adorn}, {decorate}, {grace}, {embellish}, {beautify}].
Decorate (v.) Award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to; "He was decorated for his services in the military".
Decorate (v.) Provide with decoration; "dress the windows" [syn: {dress}, {decorate}].
Decorated (a.) 裝飾的；修飾的 Having decorations. [Narrower terms: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly; bedaubed; bespectacled, monocled, spectacled; braided; brocaded, embossed, raised; buttony; carbuncled; champleve, cloisonne, enameled; crested, plumed having a decorative plume); crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested; embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; encircled, ringed, wreathed; fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked out; feathery, feathered, plumy; frilled, frilly, ruffled; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid; inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; paneled, wainscoted; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled; tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out] Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
Syn: adorned.
Decorated (a.) Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction [syn: adorned, decorated] [ant: unadorned, undecorated].
Decoration (n.) 裝飾，裝潢 [U]；裝飾物，裝飾品 [C] [P1]；勛章；獎章 [C] The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
Decoration (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. -- Motley.
Decoration (n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
Decoration (n.) Something used to beautify [syn: {decoration}, {ornament}, {ornamentation}].
Decoration (n.) An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event [syn: {decoration}, {laurel wreath}, {medal}, {medallion}, {palm}, {ribbon}].
Decoration (n.) The act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive).
Decoration (n.) (Make attractive) (B2) [ C or U ] 裝飾，裝潢；裝飾品，裝飾物 The activity of making something look more attractive by putting things on it or around it, or something that you use to do this.
// He's good at cake decoration.
// Christmas/ party/ table/ cake decorations.
Decoration (n.) (Make attractive) (B2) [ U ] (Mainly UK) (US usually redecoration) 粉刷；貼牆紙 The activity of covering the walls or other surfaces of rooms or buildings with paint or paper.
// This place is badly in need of decoration.
Decoration (n.) (Honour) [ C ] （作為榮譽而佩戴的）獎章，勳章 A medal given to someone and worn as an honour.
// The Victoria Cross and George Cross are British decorations for bravery.
Decorative (a.) 裝飾性的，裝潢用的 Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning. -- Dec"o*ra*tive*ness, n.
Decorative art, Fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.
Decorative (a.) Serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose; "cosmetic fenders on cars"; "the buildings were utilitarian rather than decorative" [syn: {cosmetic}, {decorative}, {ornamental}].
Decoratively (adv.) 裝飾地；用作裝飾品地 In a decorative manner; "used decoratively at Christmas".
Decorator (n.) [C] 裝飾者，裝潢者；室內裝潢師 One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.
Decorator (n.) A person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings [syn: {interior designer}, {designer}, {interior decorator}, {house decorator}, {room decorator}, {decorator}].
Decorator (n.) Someone who decorates [syn: {decorator}, {ornamentalist}].
Decore (v. t.) To decorate; to beautify. [Obs.]
To decore and beautify the house of God. -- E. Hall.
Decorement (n.) Ornament. [Obs.]
Decorous (a.) 有禮貌的，高雅的，端正的 Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.
A decorous pretext the war. -- Motley. -- De*co"rous*ly, adv. -- De*co"rous*ness, n.
Decorous (a.) Characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme" [ant: {indecorous}, {indelicate}].
Decorous (a.) According with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior" [syn: {becoming}, {comely}, {comme il faut}, {decent}, {decorous}, {seemly}].
Decorticated (imp. & p. p.) of Decorticate.
Decorticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decorticate.
Decorticate (v. t.) 【醫】剝去皮或皮質；除去皮殼 To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." -- Arbuthnot.
Decorticate (v.) Remove the outer layer of; "decorticate a tree branch."
Decorticate (v.) Remove the cortex of (an organ).
Decortication (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.
Decortication (n.) Removal of the outer covering of an organ or part.
Decorticator (n.) A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.
Decorum (n.) 端莊，彬彬有禮；合宜 [U]；禮節，禮儀 [P] Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
Negligent of the duties and decorums of his station. -- Hallam.
If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom. -- Shak.
Syn: Decorum, Dignity.
Usage: Decorum, in accordance with its etymology, is that which is becoming in outward act or appearance; as, the decorum of a public assembly. Dignity springs from an inward elevation of soul producing a corresponding effect on the manners; as, dignity of personal appearance.
Decorum (n.) Propriety in manners and conduct [syn: decorum, decorousness] [ant: indecorousness, indecorum].
Decorum. () Proper behaviour; good order.
Decorum. () Decorum is requisite in public places, in order to permit all persons to enjoy their rights; for example, decorum is indispensable in church, to enable those assembled, to worship. If, therefore, a person were to disturb the congregation, it would be lawful to put him out. The same might be done in case of a funeral. 1 Mod. 168; 1 Lev. 196 2 Kebl. 124. But a request to desist should be first made, unless, indeed," when the necessity of the case would render such precaution impossible. In using force to restore order and decorum, care must be taken to use no more than is necessary; for any excess will render the party using it guilty of an assault and battery. Vide Battery.
Decoyed (imp. & p. p.) of Decoy.
Decoying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decoy.
Decoy (v. t.) 誘騙 To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
Decoy (n.) 圈套，誘騙 Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
Decoy (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
Decoy (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
Decoy (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
Decoy (n.) A beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) [syn: {decoy}, {steerer}].
Decoy (n.) Something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed [syn: {bait}, {decoy}, {lure}].
Decoy (v.) Lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy.
Decoy-duck (n.) A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger.
Decoyer (n.) One who decoys another.
Decoy-men (n. pl. ) of Decoy-man.
Decoy-man (n.) A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
Decreased (imp. & p. p.) of Decrease.
Decreasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decrease.
Decrease (v. i.) 減少，減小 To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
Decrease (v. t.) 減少，減小 To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
Decrease (n.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
Decrease (n.) The wane of the moon.
Decrease (n.) A change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales" [syn: {decrease}, {lessening}, {drop-off}] [ant: {increase}].
Decrease (n.) A process of becoming smaller or shorter [syn: {decrease}, {decrement}] [ant: {growth}, {increase}, {increment}].
Decrease (n.) The amount by which something decreases [syn: {decrease}, {decrement}] [ant: {increase}, {increment}].
Decrease (n.) The act of decreasing or reducing something [syn: {decrease}, {diminution}, {reduction}, {step-down}] [ant: {increase}, {step-up}].
Decrease (v.) Decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" [syn: {decrease}, {diminish}, {lessen}, {fall}] [ant: {increase}].
Decrease (v.) Make smaller; "He decreased his staff" [syn: {decrease}, {lessen}, {minify}] [ant: {increase}].
Decreaseless (a.) Suffering no decrease.
Decreasing (a.) 減少的 Becoming less and less; diminishing.
Decreation (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation. [R.] -- Cudworth.
Decree (n.) [C] 法令，政令，命令；教令，赦令 An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru decision. "The decrees of Venice." -- Sh.
There went out a decree from C[ae]sar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. -- Luke ii. 1.
Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree? -- Shak.
Decree (n.) (Law) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
Decree (n.) (Law) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him. -- Brande.
Decree (n.) (Eccl.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
Syn: Law; regulation; edict; ordinance. See Law.
Decreed (imp. & p. p.) of Decree.
Decreeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decree.
Decree (v. t.) 頒布，判決 To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee. -- Job xxii. 28.
Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.
Decree (v. i.) 發布命令 To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
Father eternal! thine is to decree; Mine, both in heaven and earth to do thy will. -- Milton.
Decreeable (a.) Capable of being decreed.
Decreer (n.) One who decrees.
Decreet (n.) (Scots Law) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
Decrement (n.) The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. -- Ford.
Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. --Woodward.
Decrement (n.) The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
Decrement (n.) (Crystallog.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
Decrement (n.) (Math.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
Equal decrement of life. (a) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that of a given large number of persons, all being now of the same age, an equal number shall die each consecutive year.
Equal decrement of life. (b) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that the ratio of those dying in a year to those living through the year is constant, being independent of the age of the persons.
Decrement (n.) The amount by which something decreases [syn: decrease, decrement] [ant: increase, increment].
Decrement (n.) A process of becoming smaller or shorter [syn: decrease, decrement] [ant: growth, increase, increment].
Decrepit (a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. "Beggary or decrepit age." -- Milton.
Already decrepit with premature old age. -- Motley.
Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid.
Decrepit (a.) Worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" [syn: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone].
Decrepit (a.) Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly].
Decrepitated (imp. & p. p.) of Decrepitate.
Decrepitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decrepitate.
Decrepitate (v. t.) To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
Decrepitate (v. i.) To crackle, as salt in roasting.
Decrepitate (v.) Undergo decrepitation and crackle; "The salt decrepitated."
Decrepitate (v.) To roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; "decrepitate salts."
Decrepitation (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
Decrepitation (n.) The crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated.
Decrepitness (n.) Decrepitude. [R.] -- Barrow.
Decrepitude (n.) The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Decrepitude (n.) A state of deterioration due to old age or long use [syn: decrepitude, dilapidation].
Decrescendo (a. & adv.) [It.] (Mus.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Decrescendo (a.) Gradually decreasing in volume [syn: decrescendo, diminuendo].
Decrescendo (n.) (Music) A gradual decrease in loudness [syn: decrescendo, diminuendo].
Decrescendo (v.) Grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here" [ant: crescendo].
Decrescent (a.) Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.
Decrescent (n.) (Her.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister. -- Cussans.
Decretal (a.) Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle. -- Ayliffe.
Decretal (n.) (R. C. Ch.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.
Decretal (n.) (Canon Law) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.
Decrete (n.) A decree. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Decretion (n.) A decrease. [Obs.] -- Pearson.
Decretist (n.) One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.
Decretive (n.) Having the force of a decree; determining.
The will of God is either decretive or perceptive. -- Bates.
Decretorial (a.) Decretory; authoritative. -- Sir T. Browne.
Decretorily (adv.) In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.
Decretory (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence. -- South.
Decretory (a.) Serving to determine; critical. "The critical or decretory days." -- Sir T. Browne.
Decrew (v. i.) To decrease. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Decrial (n.) [See Decry.] A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.
Decrier (n.) One who decries.
Decrown (v. t.) To deprive of a crown; to discrown. [R.] -- Hakewill.
Decrustation (n.) The removal of a crust.
Decried (imp. & p. p.) of Decry.
Decrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decry.
Decry (v. t.) 責難；誹謗 To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.
For small errors they whole plays decry. -- Dryden.
Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other. -- Addison.
Syn: To {Decry}, {Depreciate}, {Detract}, {Disparage}.
Usage: Decry and depreciate refer to the estimation of a thing, the former seeking to lower its value by clamorous censure, the latter by representing it as of little worth. Detract and disparage also refer to merit or value, which the former assails with caviling, insinuation, etc., while the latter willfully underrates and seeks to degrade it. Men decry their rivals and depreciate their measures. The envious detract from the merit of a good action, and disparage the motives of him who performs it.
Decry (v.) Express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: {condemn}, {reprobate}, {decry}, {objurgate}, {excoriate}].
Decry (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 斥責，譴責，抨擊 To criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary.
// Lawyers decried the imprisonment of several journalists.
Synonym:
Condemn (v.) [ T ] (C2) （通常指出於道義而）譴責，指責 To criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons.
// The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.
// The film was condemned for its sexism.
Phrasal verb:
Condemn sb to (do) sth (- Phrasal verb with condemn) (v.) [ T ] 判決，宣判（某人某種刑罰） To say what the punishment of someone who has committed a serious crime will be.
// She was condemned to death and executed two weeks later.
// [ Often passive ] They were condemned to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
Phrasal verb: Condemn sb to sth
Condemn sb to sth (-- Phrasal verb with condemn) (v.) [ T ] 使（某人）遭受；使（某人）處於（不幸的境地） To make someone suffer in a particular way.
// Poor education condemns many young people to low-paid jobs.
Decrypt (v.) [ T ] 對（電子信息）進行解碼，破譯，破解 To change electronic information or signals that were stored, written, or sent in the form of a secret code (= a system of letters, numbers, or symbols) back into a form that you can understand and use normally.
// Messages encrypted using the public key can be decrypted only by someone with the private key.
Decrypt (v.) To convert from a coded form into the original; -- of communications. Inverse of encrypt.
Syn: decode, decipher[WE1].
Decrypt (v.) Convert code into ordinary language [syn: decode, decrypt, decipher] [ant: encode].
Decubation (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Decubitus (n.) (Med.) 【醫】（病人之）臥姿；褥瘡 An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus. Deculassement
Decubitus (n.) A reclining position (as in a bed).
Decuman (a.) （浪等）巨大的 Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. "Such decuman billows." -- Gauden. "The baffled decuman." -- Lowell.
Decumbence (n.) Alt. of Decumbency.
Decumbency (n.) 匍匐 The act or posture of lying down.
The ancient manner of decumbency. -- Sir T. Browne.
Decumbent (a.) 俯伏的；【植】匍匐的 Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
The decumbent portraiture of a woman. -- Ashmole.
Decumbent (a.) (Bot.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. -- Gray.
Decumbent (a.) Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest [syn: accumbent, decumbent, recumbent].
Decumbently (adv.) In a decumbent posture.
Decumbiture (n.) 【病理學】（病人的）臥床期 Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. -- Boyle.
Decumbiture (n.) (Astrol.) 疾運盤 Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.
Decuple (a.) 十倍的 Tenfold. [R.]
Decuple (n.) 十倍 A number ten times repeated. [R.]
Decupled (imp. & p. p.) of Decuple.
Decupling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decuple.
Decuple (v. t.) To make tenfold; to multiply by ten. [R.]