discede

English

Etymology

From Latin discedere, from dis- + cedere (“to yield”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪˈsiːd/

Verb

discede (third-person singular simple present discedes, present participle disceding, simple past and past participle disceded)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To yield or give up; to depart.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
      I dare not discede from my copy a tittle.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discede”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

discēde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of discēdō
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