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Meaning of "decursion" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DECURSION

dɪˈkɜːʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DECURSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Decursion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DECURSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of decursion in the English dictionary

The definition of decursion in the dictionary is a military exercise performed by men bearing arms or a sober file of people around a funeral pyre.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DECURSION

aspersion · assertion · aversion · coercion · conversion · discursion · dispersion · diversion · excursion · exertion · immersion · incursion · insertion · inversion · overexertion · Persian · recursion · seroconversion · subversion · version

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DECURSION

decumbently · decumbiture · decumulation · decuple · decuria · decuries · decurion · decurionate · decurrency · decurrent · decurrently · decursive · decursively · decurvation · decurve · decurved · decury · decussate · decussately · decussation

WORDS THAT END LIKE DECURSION

American Standard Version · barn conversion · bioconversion · commission · cover version · emersion · energy conversion · eversion · extraversion · extroversion · interconversion · King James Version · reconversion · reversion · Revised Standard Version · Revised Version · submersion · the Authorized Version · the Dispersion · the King James Version · torsion

Synonyms and antonyms of decursion in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «decursion» into 25 languages

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The translations of decursion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «decursion» in English.
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decursion
1,325 millions of speakers
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decursion
570 millions of speakers
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decursion
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decursion
380 millions of speakers
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decursion
280 millions of speakers
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decursion
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decursion
270 millions of speakers
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decursion
260 millions of speakers
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decursion
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decursion
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decursion
130 millions of speakers
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decursion
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Decursion
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decursion
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decursion
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दिवाणखान
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decursion
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decursion
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decursion
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decursion
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decursion
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decursion
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decursion
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decursion
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Trends of use of decursion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DECURSION»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECURSION»

Discover the use of decursion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to decursion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Archaeologia Graeca, or The antiquities of Greece. To which ...
Four times their arms a crash tremendous yield, And female shrieks re-echo tliro' the field. lewis. Where it may be observed, that in this decursion the motion was towards the left hand, by which they expressed sorrow ; as, on the contrary, ...
John Potter (abp. of Canterbury.), George Dunbar, 1818
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Archaeologia graeca: or, The antiquities of Greece
Where it may be observed, that in this decursion the motion was towards the left hand, by which they expressed sorrow ; as, on the contrary, motion to the right was a sign of joy. Thus the same author * : hie luctus abolere, novique Funeris ...
John Potter, George Dunbar, 1818
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An appeal from the old theory of English grammar, to the ...
Race, action. Pain, sensation of uneasiness. Walker. Investigation, the act of searching, examining. Decursion, the act of running down. Walker. Dedication, the act of dedicating. Walker. Decumbence, the act of lying down. Walker. Declination ...
James Brown (grammarian.), 1845
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The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and ...
... may be a continued supply of what is successively abraded from them by decursion of Waters : That Matter is never lost or annihilated ; That what is decayed by that decursion of Waters is in some measure supplied by the terrene sues which ...
Sir Matthew Hale, 1677
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Archæologia Græca: The military affairs of the Grecians. ...
Seven goodly Troops the fad Decursion made, In each of which an hundred Horse appear'd, And these (a Posture fitting those that mourn'd) The Captains led with Ensigns downwards turn'd : Towards the Left they march; on th' Pile they gaze, ...
John Potter, 1751
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Archæologia Græca: or, the antiquities of Greece
Seven goodly Troops the fad Decursion made, In each of which an hundred Horse appear'd, And these (a Posture sitting those that mourn'd) The Captains led with Ensigns downwards turn'd : Towards the Left they march ; on th' Pile they  ...
John Potter, 1775
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Archaeologia Graeca Or the Antiquities of Greece
These motions were accompanied with shouts and the sound of trumpets.3 The language of some authors seems to intimate that the decursion was made before the pile was lighted, whereas it appears from others to have been made whilst ...
John Potter, 1840
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A Dictionary of English and Bengalee: Tr. from Todd's Ed. of ...
... বা আইন, কয়শা Decursion, n. ৪. Lat. অষ৪পতন, অযোগমন, নাচে মামন বা হও লা, রফানামা | ন, উপরহইতে অধেম্মুডাষে অবতরণ, নাচে দেঈড়ান | Decrement, n. s. Lat. হ্ক্টস, '~'{]H€1,'\'H'fi' €I, কমকরণদ্বারা, ক্ষতি 7'0 Decurt, v. a. Lat. (ছন্দুট.বৃচ, -৪ষের্ষ-কৃ, সমংন্ধুক্ষপ-কৃ, ...
Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Ramcomul Sen, 1834
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Standard Croatian-English and English-Croatian dictionary
... (dika'mbent), a. položen; dolje metnut; stavljen Decursion (deko'ršan), n. otjecanje Dedicate (de'dikejt), v. posvetiti; posvećivati Dedication (đeđike'jšan), n. posvećenje; posvećivanje Dedicator (đe'dlke'jtiir), n. posvetitelj Dedition (deđi' šan), ...
Francis Aloysius Bogadek, 1917
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The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Tertullian, pt. 4th; Minucius ...
Of the rest of her adornment also, what is there which is not subject to interchanging mutation — the higher ridges of her mountains by decursion, the veins of her fountains by disappearance, and the pathways of her streams by alluvial ...
Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 1885

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECURSION»

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... ung noctivagation senders backspear tackifies ancientest decursion wingstem shellpot abattu busto fibrinoalbuminous prolixity construability ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
REFERENCE
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