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
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
The first of our friends who had deceased was Bauschan.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Fritz Reuter
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
His father had deceased intestate, and, in virtue of the laws then in force, the whole extensive inheritance of his father's lands descended to him, to the exclusion of his brothers and sisters.
From The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. by Timothy Flint
