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decease
noun
[L. to depart or to withdraw.]
Literally, departure; hence, departure from this life; death; applied to human beings only. Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory, and spoke of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke 9:31.
decease
verb intransitive
To depart from this life; to die. Gen. Washington deceased, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his age.