declension

[De*clen·sion]

The inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo European languages

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The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

Noun
a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"

Noun
a downward slope or bend

Noun
process of changing to an inferior state

Noun
the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages


n.
The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

n.
A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.

n.
Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.

n.
Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.

n.
The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.

n.
Rehearsing a word as declined.


Declension

De*clen"sion , n. [Apparently corrupted fr. F. d'82clinaison, fr. L. declinatio, fr. declinare. See Decline, and cf. Declination.] 1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
The declension of the land from that place to the sea.
2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension.
3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. 4. (Gram.) (a) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. (b) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. (c) Rehearsing a word as declined. &hand; The nominative was held to be the primary and original form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings (hence called casus, cases, or fallings) from the nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from the noun's upright form, was called a declension. Harris. Declension of the needle, declination of the needle.

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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