Decedent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Decedent \De*ce"dent\, a. [L. decedens, p. pr. of decedere.]
     Removing; departing. --Ash.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Decedent \De*ce"dent\, n.
     A deceased person. --Bouvier.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  decedent
       n : someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead
           person would have done" [syn: {dead person}, {dead soul},
            {deceased person}, {deceased}, {departed}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DECEDENT. In the acts of descent and distribution in Pennsylvania, this word 
  is frequently used for a deceased person, testate or intestate.