Pronounced: DEH-kuh-sate, verb
Notes: Another of the words I haven’t seen before
Yesterday’s word
The word vardy means “judgment or opinion”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1700s
Background / Comments
Our word is a from a dialect variant of verdit, which is from verdict, which is from the Anglo-Normal words ver (true) and dit (statement; speech), which is from dicere (to say).
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