Vocabulary : Declension to Decline

Declension : The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. ;; A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. ;; Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. ;; Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. ;; The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. ;; Rehearsing a word as declined.
Declensional : Belonging to declension.
Declinable : Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
Declinal : Declining; sloping.
Declinate : Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.

Declination : The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. ;; The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. ;; The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. ;; The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. ;; The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. ;; The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south. ;; The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
Declinator : An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. ;; A dissentient.
Declinatory : Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
Declinature : The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
Decline : To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. ;; To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines. ;; To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals. ;; To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle. ;; To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. ;; To cause to decrease or diminish. ;; 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. ;; To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical