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Definition of Deked
1. deke [v] - See also: deke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deked
Literary usage of Deked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy: Who was Murdered in Defence of the by Joseph Cammet Lovejoy, Owen Lovejoy, John Quincy Adams (1838)
"... for which our brother was, in the process of time, cruelly persecuted ; and,
for conscientiously holding fast to which, he was finally MUR deked. ..."
2. Narrative of a Journey Round the World: Comprising a Winter-passage Across by Friedrich Gerstäcker (1853)
"The poorer classes buy it, it is true, and wear it; but they know well enough
the difference between a real bad- deked sarong and a counterfeit one; ..."
3. Latin Composition for Secondary Schools by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1904)
"... 3, -puli, -pulsus. due: be —, owe, deked, 2. duty, doing one's duty, officium, -i,
N. duty of, expressed by pred. gen. E each, quisque, quaeque, ..."
4. Dictionary of the Kiniassa Language by John Rebman, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Church Missionary Society (1877)
"... tin's man is quiet (settled in his mind), remains still and
silent—deked»a(v.trans.*int.) to '.observe the utmost stillness (in order to
listen or to ..."
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