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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
decease/dɪˈsiːs/

▶noun formal or Law a person's death. ▶verb archaic die.

– origin ME: from OFr. deces, from L. decessus ‘death’, past part. of decedere ‘to die’.

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decedent - post-obit

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