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To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.

To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress. Pope. Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our tim…

Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn. Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him. Mrs. Browning.

Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.

To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from the [the estimates]. Burke.

ance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding. "Defection and falling away from God." Sir W. Raleigh. The general defection of the whole realm. Sir J. Davies.

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel. [A Latinism & Obs.] Th' other strove for to defend The force of Vulcan with his might and main. Spenser.

To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor.

Luxury. "To drive away all superfluity and deliciousness." Sir T. North.

To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste. [Obs.] Dilapidating, or rather deliquating, his bishopric. Fuller.

A sinking away; a swooning. [Obs.] Bacon.

A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).

The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.

To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. I will depart to mine own land. Num. x. 30. Ere thou from hence depart. Milton. He which hath no stomach to…

Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment. He told us he had been deported to Spain. Walsh.

To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.

the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.

To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.] 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak.