decease
noun
the act of dying; departure from life; death.
had deceased
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past perfectof decease.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Just looking at her, I knew that she had deceased.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2016
It seems legitimate to connect this mark of royal favour with the fact that at the beginning of the preceding month Lord Burghley had deceased.
From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Edmund Spenser
And on a certain day he came to a place called Fearta, where at the side of a hill two women who had deceased were buried.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
The argument was actually commenced on that day and continued until the next, at which time the motion was ordered off the calendar because meantime Mr. Sharon had deceased.
From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Stephen Johnson Field
Laramie, according to My Lady, also once had been, as she styled it, “a live town,” but had deceased in favor of Benton.
From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd
