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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
decedent
    n 1: someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead
         person would have done" [syn: dead person, dead soul,
         deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Decedent \De*ce"dent\, a. [L. decedens, p. pr. of decedere.]
   Removing; departing. --Ash.
   [1913 Webster]
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Decedent \De*ce"dent\, n.
   A deceased person. --Bouvier.
   [1913 Webster]
4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
DECEDENT. In the acts of descent and distribution in Pennsylvania, this word 
is frequently used for a deceased person, testate or intestate.
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