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Definition of Decliners
1. decliner [n] - See also: decliner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decliners
Literary usage of Decliners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Mathematical Manual: Or, Delightful Associate ... Pub. for the by Edward Hatton (1728)
"But the beft Way of making Eaft, and Weft* and Decliners, not being by the Globe,
I (hall lay no farther of them in this Place, but proceed. SECT. ..."
2. Theory of Interest: Simple and Compound, Derived from First Principles, and by David Wilkie (1794)
"The number of annuitants cannot be complete, •«Kfc- only till after the death of
all the.decliners, which may happen about the, Goth year of the fund, ..."
3. A System of Practical Mathematics ...: With a Plain Account of the Gregorian by Earl of George Parker Macclesfield, John Potter, William Whiston (1753)
"... for the North Dials, draw the Hour-Lines of the South Decliners thro' the
Center, and they will become Hour-Lines for the North Decliners. ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"Nor was this out of the least vanity that my father exceeded (who was one of the
greatest decliners of it); but because he could not refuse the civility of ..."
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