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单词 deceased
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deceasedadj.

/dɪˈsiːst/poetic./dɪˈsiːsɪd/
Forms: see decease v.; also 1600s deceast, disseised.
Etymology: < decease v. + -ed suffix1. From the intermixture of the prefixes de- and dis-, and of the letters c and s, it was frequently written diseased.
1.
a. That has departed this life, dead, ‘departed’; esp. lately dead, ‘late’.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > recently dead
latea1422
new-dead?a1425
umquhile1431
deceased1490
that wasa1500
feu1813
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 227 After that a man is ones decessed.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxliv. 364 The bysshop of Wynchestre discessed..was chancellour of England.
1564 E. Grindal Serm. Funeral Prince Ferdinandus 10 [He] highly commended the parties discessed.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. I2v The deceased ghost of him that loued you.
1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) 98 The Honour of..our disseised Queen.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxviii. 242 Those deceased Giants.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 40 There..I shall see justice done to deceased merit.
1810 W. Wordsworth Ess. Epit. in Wks. (1888) 814/1 The character of a deceased friend.
1893 Law Times 95 82/1 The heir of a deceased licence-holder.
figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 76 Figuring the natures of the times deceast . View more context for this quotation
b. deceased wife's sister question: the question of a widower's marrying the sister of his deceased wife, such a marriage being legal in some countries and illegal in others.
c. transferred. Of a deceased person.
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1906 Times 29 Aug. 11/2 London and North-Western stock was noticeably plentiful for delivery, and was said to have been sold heavily during the account on behalf of a deceased estate.
2. absol.
a. plural. the deceased: those who are dead, the dead. Obsolete.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun]
the holy soulsc950
the deadc1000
dead1340
deadmana1400
the defunct1548
sleeper1590
gone?1614
grave-fellow1642
under-dead1648
the deceased1673
the majority1721
the departed1722
the dear departed1814
sleeper1827
goner1836
gone coon1837
silent majority1874
1673 J. Milton Psalm LXXXVIII in Poems (new ed.) 164 Shall the deceas'd arise?
b. The person (lately) dead, or whose death is in question.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun] > the recently dead
deceased1633
decedent1730
the late lamented1864
1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts v. i. sig. K3v It might haue argu'd me of little loue To the deceas'd.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. cxii. 297 He..sealed up all the papers of the deceased.
1840 C. Pelham Chron. Crime (1886) II. 349 An inquest was held upon the remains of deceased at the Dog and Gun.
1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning i. i Mr. Jones..promised to read the burial-service over the deceased.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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