declinen

declinen

1. third-person plural present indicative of declinar

• decline, declyne, declynen
• declyn (Late Middle English)

Borrowed from Middle French decliner, from Old French decliner, from Latin dēclīnāre (“to turn away”); by surface analysis, declin +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). Compare enclinen.

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈkliːnən/, /dɛːˈkliːnən/

declinen (third-person singular simple present declineth, present participle declinende, declinynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle declined)

1. (especially astronomy) To move or turn away: to deviate:
   1. To bend or droop; to form a curve or angle.
   2. To slant or slope; to form an angle.
   3. (rare) To sink or drop; to move downwards.
2. To avoid or eschew; to stay away from:
   1. To reject or abandon; to not or no longer accept.
   2. (rare) To cause to reject; to divert or entice away.
3. To decline or fall; to become weak:
   1. To weaken or destroy; to cause to decline.
4. To tend; to have a tendency towards:
   1. (rare) To cause to tend; to dispose towards.
5. (grammar) To inflect (a word); to conjugate or decline.

• declin
• declinacioun
• declinson

• English: decline
• Middle Scots: decline, declyne
  • Scots: decline

• “dēclīnen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “decline, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

declinen

1. inflection of declinar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative