decard
decard verb: to discard (get rid of a card).
Verb
decard (third-person singular simple present decards, present participle decarding, simple past and past participle decarded)
- To discard (get rid of a card).
- At trump, saint, and such other like, cutting at the neck is a great vantage, so is cutting by a bum card (finely) under and over, stealing the stock of the decarded cards, if there be broad laws beforced aforehand.1532, Gilbert Walker, A Manifest Detection of the moste vyle and detestable use of Diceplay, and other practises lyke the same, Democritus
- Philocles. Can you decard, madam?
Queen. Hardly, but I must do hurt.1608, Lewis Machin, The Dumb Knight
- To discard (throw away or reject)
- Therefore these kalendars of doubts I commend as excellent things; so that there be this caution used, that when they be so throughly sifted and brought to resolution, they be from thenceforth omitted, decarded, and not continued to cherish and encourage men in doubting.1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, volume 2, page 54
- O but when this poore deceaved sot, begins to be beggerd, then his Lordship presently decards him, because hee can not serue more to make vp a full hundreth.1609, Simion Grahame, The Anatomie of Hvmors, page 18
Forms of decard
| third-person singular present | decards |
|---|---|
| present participle | decarding |
| past participle | decarded |
| past | decarded |
Questions about decard
- What does decard mean?
- Decard means to discard (get rid of a card).
- What part of speech is decard?
- Decard is a verb.
- What is the past tense of decard?
- The past tense of decard is decarded.
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