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phurous ochre : five leagues fouth-eaft of Nevers. Lat. 
46. 50. N. Ion. 21.8. E. Ferro. 
To DECK, V. a. \_decken, Dut.] To cover; to over- 
fpread: 
Ye milts and exhalations, that now rife 
From hill or (teaming lake, dufky or grey, 
In honour to the world’s gieat Author, rife ! 
Whether to deck with clouds th’ uncolour’d Iky, 
Or wet the thirfty earth with falling fliowers, 
Rifing or falling, Hill advance his praife. Milton. 
To drefs; to array.—Sweet ornament! that decks a thing 
divine. Shakefpeare. 
She fets to work millions of fpinning-worms, 
That in their green (hops weave the fmooth-hair’d filk, 
To deck her fons.- Milton. 
To adorn ; to embellifh : 
•No'w the dew with fpangles deck'd the ground, 
A fweeter fpet of earth was never found. Dry den. 
The god (hall to his vot’ries tell 
Each confcious tear, each blu(hing grace, 
That deck'd dear Eloifa’s face. Prior. 
DECK,yi The floor of a (hip. See Naval Archi¬ 
tecture. —If any man, born and bred under deck, had 
no other information but what fenfe affords, he would be 
of opinion that the (hip was as (table as a houfe. Glanv. 
At fun-fet to their (hip they make return. 
And fnore fecure on decks till rofy morn. Dryden. 
Pack of cards piled regularly on each other.—Befides 
gems, many other forts of (tones are regularly figured : 
the amianthus, of parallel threads, as in the pile of vel¬ 
vet ; and the felenites, of parallel, plates, as in a deck of 
cards. Grew. 
DECK'ENDORF, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Bavaria, near the Danube. In 1633, it was taken by 
the troops of the duke of Saxe-Weimar, and retaken by 
the Swedes in 1641 : twenty-eight miles north-weft; of 
Paffau, and thirty-eight eaft-fouth-eaft of Ratilbon. 
DECK'ER,yi Adrefler; one that apparels or adorns; 
a coverer, as a table-decker . A veffel having a deck. 
DECK'ER, or Deckher (John), a Jefuit of great eru¬ 
dition, and an able chronologift, born at Hazebruck in 
Flanders, about the year 1559. He commenced his (In¬ 
dies at Douay, from whence he removed to Rome, in 
which city he entered into the order of jefuits. From 
Rome he was fent to Naples, to complete his noviciate, 
and to perfect himfelf in the ftudy of theology. On his 
return to Rome he was admitted into orders, and was fent 
thence into his native country, to teach philofophy and 
fcholaftic theology. Thefe offices he difeharged at 
Douay and at Louvain. Afterwards he was fent on the 
bufinefs of the fociety into Styria, where he was made 
chancellor of the univerfity of Gratz ; in which fitua- 
tion he died in 1619. The principal work which he 
publifhed is entitled Velificatio, feu Theoremata de Anno 
Ortus ac Mortis Domini, de que univerfa Jefzt Chrifti in Came 
(Economia, ( 3 c. cum Tabula Chronographica a capta per Pcm- 
feium Jerofolyma, ad deletam a Tito Urban (3 Templum, 1616, 
quarto. He alfo left in manufeript, a laborious work, 
the refult of forty years’ application, entitled Theologica- 
rum Differtationum mixtim, £3 Chrcmologicarum in Chrifi Homi- 
nis Dei Natalcm, feu de Primario ac Palmari Divine ac Hu¬ 
mana Chronologic Vinculo, qui ejl Annus Ortus ac Mortis Do¬ 
mini, (Economia; and other differtations, which are re¬ 
ported to difplay profound knowledge of ecclefiaftical 
hiftory, and, in particular, of chronology. 
DECK'ING,yi Ornament.—Our temples (hall their 
coftly deckings mifs. Fairfax. 
To DECLA'IM, v. n. [declamo, Lat.] To harangue; 
to fpeak to the paflions; to rhetoricate; to fpeak fet 
orations.—It is ufual formatters to make their boys de¬ 
claim en both fides of an argument. Swifl. —Drefs up all 
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the virtues in the beauties of oratory, and declaim aloud 
on the praife of goodnefs. Watts. 
DECLAIM'ANT, f. A declaimer.—The company 
was a little furprifed at the fophiftry of our declaimant. 
Shenjlone. . 
DECLAIM'ER,/! One who makes fpeeches with in¬ 
tent to move the paffions.—Your falamander is a perpe¬ 
tual declaimer againft jealoufy. Addifon. 
DECLAMA'TION,_/i \_declamatio, Lat.] A difeourfe 
addreffed to the paffions; an harangue ; a fet fpeech ; a 
piece of rhetoric.'—The caufe why declamations prevail 
fo greatly, is, for that men fuffer themfelves to be de¬ 
luded. Hooker. —Thou mayeft forgive his anger, while 
thou makeft life of the plainnefs of his declamation. Taylor. 
.—In the prefent age, declamation, or public harangues, 
are ufed only in the pulpit; in the fenate ; in council; 
in public fchools; or on the ftage. For the principles of 
declamation, fee Oratory. 
DECLAMA'TOR, /. [Lat.] A declaimer; an ora¬ 
tor ; a rhetorician : feldom ufed.— Who could, I fay, hear 
this generous declamator, without being fired at his noble 
zeal > Tatler. 
DECLA'MATORY, adj. \_declamatorius, Lat.] Re¬ 
lating to the pradtice of declaiming ; pertaining to de¬ 
clamation ; treated in the manner of a rhetorician.— 
This a while fufpended his interment, and became a de¬ 
clamatory theme amongft the religious men of that age. 
Wotton. —Appealing to the paflions.—He has run himfelf 
into his own declamatory way, and almoft forgotten that 
he was now fetting up for a moral poet. Dryden. 
DF.CLA'RABLE, adj. Capable of proof.—This is 
declarable from the bed writers. Brown. 
DECLARA'TION.yi A proclamation or affirmation; 
open expreffion; publication.—Though wit and learning 
are certain and habitual perfections of the mind, yet the 
declaration of them, which alone brings the repute, is fub- 
jedt to a thoufand hazards. South. —An explanation of 
fomething doubtful. Obfolete. 
DECLAR A'TION, f. in law, a legal fpecification* 
on record, of the caufe of adtion by a plaintiff againft a 
defendant. In the king’s-bench, when the defendant is 
brought into court by bill of Middlefex, upon a fup- 
pofed trefpafs, in order to give the court a jurifdidtion, 
the plaintiff may declare in whatever adtion, or charge 
the defendant with whatever injury, he thinks proper, 
unlefs he has held him to bail by a fpecial ac etiam; 
which the plaintiff is then bound to purfue. And (o 
alfo, in order to have the benefit of a capias to fecure 
the defendant’s perfon, it was the antient practice, and 
is therefore (till warrantable, in the common-pleas, to 
fue out a writ of trefpafs quare claufum fregit, for break¬ 
ing the plaintiff’s clofe ; and when the defendant is once 
brought in upon this writ, the plaintiff' declares in what 
adtion the nature of his true injury may require, as in an 
adtion of covenant, or on the cafe for breach of contradt, 
or other lefs forcible tranfgreflion ; unlefs, by holding 
the defendant to bail on a fpecial ac etiam, he has bound 
himfelf to declare accordingly. 3 Comm. 293. In either 
cafe, the declaration (hould correfpond with the procefs, 
in the names and deferiptions of the parties; for if there 
be a material variance, the court will fet afide the pro¬ 
ceedings, unlefs where the procefs is taken out againft 
the defendant by a wrong name, and he appears by his 
right name, there the plaintiff may declare againft him 
by the name in which he appears, dating that he was ar¬ 
retted by the other name ; for by appearing, the defend¬ 
ant admits himfelf to be the perfon fued ; and fo the va¬ 
riance is immaterial. 3 7en» Rep. 611. The fubftantial 
rules of pleading according to which declarations are to 
be drawn are founded in ftrong fenfe and the founded and 
clofeft logic, and fo appear when well underftood and 
explained; though by being mifunderftood and mifap- 
plied, they are often made ufe of as inftruments of chi¬ 
cane. 1 Burr. 319. 
Rules respecting the Declaration.-— The par¬ 
ties. 
