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Definition of Decayed

1. Adjective. Damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless. "A decayed foundation"

Definition of Decayed

1. a. Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman.

Definition of Decayed

1. Adjective. Describing something that has, or is in process, of decaying. ¹

2. Verb. (past of decay) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Decayed

1. decay [v] - See also: decay

Medical Definition of Decayed

1. Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. Decay"edness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decayed

Literary usage of Decayed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biennial Report by Oregon Board of Railroad Commissioners, Oregon, Board of Railroad Commissioners (1889)
"1557—Two piles in first bent from south approach badly decayed, as UK also the piles under ... 7, west end of mud-sill and west batter post badly decayed. ..."

2. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton (1895)
"... •—decayed— Ix fa :—ii inches ; the trusses—good ; the pennants of the ... the falls of the fore- braces—decayed—1 fa :—ii inches ; the parrell— good ..."

3. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"present dwelling although the rest was decayed, or of its standing low in a valley, sheltered from the north and east by rising woods of oak. ..."

4. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... the foretopmast staye — good ; the pennants and falls of the tackles of the foretopmast — good ; the lifts — half-worne ; the braces — decayed — Ix ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"(2) Exhibition of blue-green decayed wood. By Professor HUGHES. ... blue-green decayed wood in which the colouring matter had penetrated to the heart of the ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"These mosaics are lost or decayed, but it is not unlikely that the artists so engaged, designed and worked on the wall paintings of Sant' Angelo-tn- formis, ..."

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