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-v. 2. ordain, rule, adjudge, order, command, dic tate, pronounce, proclaim; charge, bid, enjoin, direct, prescribe, instruct; enact, appoint, authorize, establish; decide, determine, arbitrate, adjudicate, settle, set; exact, demand, require, tax with; sentence, Law. award, find.

decrepit, adj. 1. feeble, enfeebled, infirm, weak, weakened, weakly, emasculate, effete; aged, old, elderly, ancient; senile, anile, senescent, doddering, tottering; disabled, crippled, palsied, laid up, laid on one's back, bedridden, sickly, valetudinarian.
2. dilapidated, rickety, broken-down, tumbledown, rundown, worn, worn-out, weatherbeaten, faded; deteriorated, decayed, wasted, the worse for wear, on its last legs; withered, wilted; antiquated, antique, timeworn, superannuated.

decrepitude, n. 1. feebleness, enfeeblement, infirmity, weakness; debility, invalidity, palsy, disablement, incapacity, helplessness; old age, caducity, senescence, senility, anility, dotage, hoary age.
2. dilapidation, decay, deterioration, degeneration, decadence, retrogression, wasting, falling off, superannuation.

decry, v. 1. detract, disparage, demean, deprecate, belittle, deflate, depreciate, devaluate, damn with faint praise, Inf. talk down; discredit, disfavor, make disreputable, injure or impair the credit or reputation of; criticize, dispraise, cut up, shred, pull to pieces, SI.do a number on, SI.do a hatchet job on, carp at, cavil at, peck at. Inf. knock, Inf. rap; minimize, slight, underestimate, underrate, undervalue, beggar, extenuate, underreckon, misprize, think nothing of, set no store by, fail to count on; deemphasize, underplay, make light of, make little of, Inf play down; lampoon, pasquinade, caricature, satirize; ridicule, mock, poke fun at, laugh at, sneer at, jeer at, jibe at; disdain, deride, contemn, scoff, spurn, scorn, pooh-pooh.
2. denounce, rail, curse, condemn, anathematize, Obs. exprobate, cry down; censure, reproach, impeach, bring to book, call to account, slate, inveigh against, clamor against, remonstrate against, reprove, recriminate, reprehend, reprobate, pass strictures, per-stringe, animadvert upon.
3. defame, denigrate, vilify. See - detract (def. 3).

dedicate, v. 1. devote, bless, hallow, sanctify, consecrate, make holy, deify, apotheosize, enshrine; set apart, signalize; (of oneself) give, offer, surrender.
2. inscribe, preface, address, name,

dedication, n. 1. enshrinement, deification, apotheosis, consecration, canonization, ordination.
2. devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, fealty, allegiance, adherence; surrender, relinquishment.
3. inscription, preface; message, address.

deduce, v. conclude, infer, gather, glean, understand, figure, SI.dope out; presume, assume, suppose, opine, U.S. Dial, reckon, surmise, guess,

deducible, adj. inferable, derivable, traceable; consequent, sequent; conceivable, logical, reasonable,

deduct, v. 1. subtract, withdraw, take away, abstract, remove, take out, take from, Archaic, subduct; discount, take off, Inf lop off, SI.knock off.
2. detract, devalue, devaluate; weaken, reduce, diminish, lessen, abate, bate, lower, curtail.