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Definition of Decrescent
1. a. Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.
2. n. A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
Definition of Decrescent
1. Adjective. Becoming gradually less; diminishing. ¹
2. Adjective. Waning. ¹
3. Noun. (heraldiccharge) A crescent oriented with horns turned to sinister (pointing right). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decrescent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decrescent
Literary usage of Decrescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Heraldry: With Four Hundred and Fifty Illus. Drawn and Engraved on by Charles Boutell (1907)
"166, A : she is A Crescent. "Increscent," or "in increment," when as in No.
166, B : and she is "decrescent," or " in detriment," when as in No. 166, c. ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1896)
"There are eight groups in the accrescent octaves and seven in the decrescent,
fifteen in all. ... Hence there is no decrescent octave; and the term ..."
3. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1896)
"There are eight groups in the accrescent octaves and seven in the decrescent,
fifteen in all. ... Hence there is no decrescent octave; and the term ..."
4. The British Herald Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry ...by Thomas Robson by Thomas Robson (1830)
"DECOURS, and DECREMENT, French terms signifying what the English call decrescent.
decrescent, the half-moon looking to the left of the .shield. See PI. ..."
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