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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
DECREMENT, n.
The state of becoming gradually less;
decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward. The quantity lost by gradual diminution or
waste; -- opposed to increment.
A name given by
Haüy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules,
applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the
secondary forms to be produced.
The quantity by which a
variable is diminished.
Equal decrement of life. | ||||||||