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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In heraldry, having the tail hanging vertically downward: said of a serpent used as a bearing. Also declivant.

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  • Haec vallis habet longitudinem septem, vel octo milliarium ad plus, in quam si quis intrat, moritur, et nunquam viuus potest transire per medium illius vallis, et ideò omnes de contrata declinant à latere:

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • [37] Ammianus Marcellinus: "Ipsa oppida, ut circumdata retiis busta declinant"; in reference to the Franks and Alemanni, "Rerum Gestarum," lib. xvi., cap. ii.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • But the sermon came to an end without any line of conduct having suggested itself; and I walked home in some depression, feeling sadly that Venus was in the ascendant and in direful opposition, while Auriga -- the circus star -- drooped declinant, perilously near the horizon.

    The Golden Age 1915

  • Rome, towards the middle of the fifth century, sometimes succeeded in communicating fraudulently in the Catholic Church: "ore indigno corpus Christi accipiunt, sanguinem autem redemptionis nostrae haurire omnino declinant".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Auriga -- the circus star -- drooped declinant, perilously near the horizon.

    The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • Et de fait, nous croyons qu'en declinant de ce fondement, tant peu que ce soit, nous ne pourrions trouver ailleurs aucun repos, mais serions toujours agites d'inquietude: d'autant que jamais nous ne sommes paisibles avec Dieu, jusqu '` a ce que nous soyons bien resolus d'etre aimes en Jesus-Christ, vu que nous sommes dignes d'etre hais en nousmemes.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Lequel nous etant donne ` a salut, nous ` a ete quant et quant fait sapience, sanctification et redemption: en sorte qu'en declinant de lui, on renonce ` a la misericorde du Pere, ou il nous convient avoir refuge unique. 1 Cor. i.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Quis sublime genus formamque insignis Etruscae nesciat? haud quamquam proprio mihi cognita uisu, sed decus eximium famae par reddit imago, uultibus et similis natorum gratia monstrat. nec uulgare genus; fascis summamque curulem115 frater et Ausonios ensis mandataque fidus signa tulit, cum prima trucis amentia Dacos impulit et magno gens est damnata triumpho. sic quicquid patrio cessatum a sanguine, mater reddidit, obscurumque latus clarescere uidit120 conubio gauisa domus. nec pignora longe; quippe bis ad partus uenit Lucina manuque ipsa leui grauidos tetigit fecunda labores. felix a! si longa dies, si cernere uultus natorum uiridisque genas tibi iusta dedissent125 stamina! sed media cecidere abrupta iuuenta: gaudia florentisque manu scidit Atropos annos; qualia pallentis declinant lilia culmos pubentesque rosae primos moriuntur ad austros, aut ubi uerna nouis exspirat purpura pratis.

    To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father 1912

  • ` a salut, nous ` a ete quant et quant fait sapience, sanctification et redemption: en sorte qu'en declinant de lui, on renonce ` a la misericorde du Pere, ou il nous convient avoir refuge unique.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Implicane iè alii, dumut dcclinent & audpsj omnes.] & pìropheciais declinant.

    Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657

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