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Further testing for communicable deceases is being performed.”

From Time • Oct. 29, 2015

Consciousness is a production which results from the fermentation and elaboration of unconscious materials; and after a time it deceases, its conditions crumbling into their inorganic grounds again.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.

From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee

His soul dwells in the outside of him, like that of a hollow tree, and if you do but peel the bark off him he deceases immediately.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various