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Definition of Decrial
1. n. A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.
Definition of Decrial
1. Noun. a crying down ¹
2. Noun. clamorous condemnation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decrial
1. the act of decrying [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decrial
Literary usage of Decrial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Course of the History of Modern Philosophy by Victor Cousin, Orlando Williams Wight (1853)
"John Occam. His partisans and his adversaries.—decrial of the two systems and of
Scholasticism.—Mysticism.—Chancellor Gerson. ..."
2. The Grammar of English Grammars: With an Introduction, Historical and by Goold Brown (1858)
"Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial ; Shy, shyer, shyest, shyly, ...
"Cry, cried, crying, crier, cryer, decried, décrier, decrial ; Shy, shyly, shily, ..."
3. Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps (1917)
"could not solve his problem; instead of sketching the relations between the 'fathers'
and the 'children' he wrote a panegyric to the 'fathers' and a decrial ..."
4. The Definer's Manual: Being a Dictionary on a New Plan, of the Most Useful by William W. Smith (1860)
"Pull of charity ; bountiful. [the poor. decrial ... between adapt and adopt F
Why doei decry change y into г in decrial }• What sound has с in ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Judicial ; definitive ; critical ; in which there is some definitive event.
decrial, (de-kri'-al) ns Clamorous censure ; hasty or noisy condemnation. ..."
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