DECLARER
De*clar"er, n.
Defn: One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits. Udall.
DECLASS
De*class", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Declassed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Declassing.] [Cf. F. déclasser.]
Defn: To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class. North Am. Rev.
DECLENSION
De*clen"sion, n. Etym: [Apparently corrupted fr. F. déclinaison, fr.
L. declinatio, fr. declinare. See Decline, and cf. Declination.]
1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet.
2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. Shak.
3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
4. (Gram.) (a) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. (b) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. (c) Rehearsing a word as declined.
Note: The nominative was held to be the primary and original form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings (hence called casus, cases, or fallings) from the nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from the noun's upright form, was called a declension. Harris. Declension of the needle, declination of the needle.