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To cut off; to separate. [Obs.] Our seat denies us traffic here; The sea, too near, decides us from the rest. Fuller.

Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage. "A more decided taste for science." Prescott.

In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.

Means of forming a decision. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A falling off. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

One who decides.

To reverse or recant, as a previous decision.

Undecided character of a disease. [Obs.]

To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term.

A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. My decided preference is for the fourth and last of thalternatives. Gladstone.

A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.

To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request. I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. They appealed to the sword. Maca…

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.

r elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W.

To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal.

eats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay.