Vocabulary : Decrepitate to Decrete

Decrepitate : To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. ;; To crackle, as salt in roasting.
Decrepitated : of Decrepitate
Decrepitating : of Decrepitate
Decrepitation : The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
Decrepitness : Decrepitude.

Decrepitude : The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Decrescendo : With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Decrescent : Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon. ;; A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
Decretal : Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle. ;; An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law. ;; The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.
Decrete : A decree.

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