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Declinal
Declinal De*clin"al, a. Declining; sloping.
Declinate
Declinate Dec"li*nate, a. [L. declinatus, p. p. of declinare. See Decline.] Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.
Declinature
Declinature De*clin"a*ture (?; 135), n. The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
Decline
Decline De*cline", v. t. 1. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. In melancholy deep, with head declined. --Thomson. And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale. --Spenser. 2. To cause to decrease or diminish. [Obs.] ``You have declined his means.' --Beau. & Fl. He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it. --Burton. 3. To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them. Could I Decline this dreadful hour? --Massinger. 4. (Gram.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective. Note: Now restricted to such words as have case inflections; but formerly it was applied both to declension and conjugation. After the first declining of a noun and a verb. --Ascham. 5. To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. [R.] --Shak.
Declined
Declined De*clined", a. Declinate.
Decliner
Decliner De*clin"er, n. He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. --Evelyn.
Declinometer
Declinometer Dec`li*nom"e*ter, n. [Decline + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
Declinous
Declinous De*clin"ous, a. Declinate.

Meaning of Declin from wikipedia

- Declinism is the belief that a society or institution is tending towards decline. Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such...
- The Decline of the American Empire (French: Le Déclin de l'empire Américain) is a 1986 Canadian **** comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand and starring...
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- criticized this view. Scholars say that the perception of decline, or declinism, has long been part of American culture. Rhetoric of American decline...