DECLINE Copy link • DECLINE 1. s. deminutio: imminutio: extenuatio: remissio: mitigatio. [Vid: LESSENING.] To be on the decline [Vid: To DECLINE]. The decline of life, ingravescens aetas (Cic.). In the decline of life, provectiore aetate (in advanced years); vergente jam senecta (Tac.); vergens annis (Tac.): to be in the decline of life, longius aetate provectum esse. Consumption, tabes. phthisis (φθίσις , Cels., 3, 22): anybody is in a decline, corpus alicujus ad tabem venit; tabes aliquem invadit: to be in a decline, *tabe laborare. 2. To lean downward, inclinare proclivem or declivem esse: labi; delabi (to sink gradually); inclinari, se inclinare (of the day, fortune, etc.). To grow weaker, or to decrease, deminui (to be lessened; of bodily strength, etc. ☞ not diminui): minui, imminui (of prices, influence, etc.): remittere (of what is diminished in intensity): defervescere (of heat, desires, passions): senescere (to be weakened by age or time; of strength; also of memory, hope, zeal, etc.): deficere (of strength, etc.): my strength declines, viribus senesco, or deficior; vires extenuantur, deficiunt: the price of corn declines, annona laxat, levatur: the price of anything declines, *pretium mercis imminuitur; *res fit vilior: public credit declines, fides (tota aliqua terra [e.g., Italia, Caes.] est angustior: anybody’s health is declining, aliquis valetudinem amittit: alicujus valetudo decrescit (Plaut., Cure., 2, 1, 4); aliquis tenui, infirma, minus commoda est valetudine: eloquence has declined from its Attic purity of diction, eloquentia omnem illam salubritatem Atticae dictionis quasi sanitatem perdidit (Cic.): the day declines, dies se inclinat or inclinatur, but probably better, *in vespertinum tempus inclinatur (after inclinato in post-meridianum tempus die, Cic.); dies vergit (Suet., Otho, 7; Plin.): anybody’s influence, popularity, etc., declines, alicujus auctoritas, existimatio, etc., imminuta est: the power of the Athenians declines, opes Atheniensium senescunt. To refuse, declinare aliquid (by getting out of its way frequent in Cic.): renuere aliquid (by a shake of the head): to decline complying with anybody’s entreaties, petenti alicui aliquid denegare; preces alicujus repudiare: to decline faintly, subnegare aliquid; courteously, belle negare; flatly, praecise negare; sine ulla exceptione or plane praecidere. Deviate from; [Vid: DEVIATE]. To decline a word, verbum immutare casibus; verbum declinare (used in the old Grammarians of every kind of grammatical inflection).