Decenter

It would be better, "he added," if more of us -- college students included -- learned how to speak a decenter English. ❋ Henry Blake Fuller (1893)

He can laugh pungently enough at the style of oratory prevailing in the courts -- nilne pudet capiti non posse pericula cano pellere, quin tepidum hoc optes audire 'decenter'. ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

Can an individual wishing others "Happy Holidays" in December amount to that individual's intent to decenter Christmas and Christianity? ❋ Warren J. Blumenfeld (2011)

An attempt to decenter Christian hegemony in terminology related to the marking of time is replacing BC with BCE (Before the Common Era) and AD with CE (Common Era), although the renaming does nothing to end the marking of time before and after a "common" (Christian) era. ❋ Warren J. Blumenfeld (2011)

Here are some ideas for choosing volunteer work that will help your child decenter: ❋ Ph.D. Wendy Mogel (2010)

Because we read this diary in installments, like Anne, our assessment of his plot undergoes its own shocks: we may well wish to write him off as a stock character, the typical misguided liberal in a postcolonial novel--an urge supported by David's unreliable narrative voice--but his willingness to admit wrongdoing and decenter himself calls our responses into question. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If we were to decenter the culture that anchored this meaning what would the language look like and how would we teach it? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Life for him is prettier, easier, wiser, decenter, has a gem or two more on its robe, but its old eternal burden is not relieved; no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its veins. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is my understanding that Mann and company selected the calibration period for both calibration, as indicated in the outlined procedure above, and for the determining the standard deviations and averages to normalize or “center/decenter” the data from the entire time period of the proxy study. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In our own surprise and alarm we partook of the taciturnity of the witnesses, which I think was rather fine and was much decenter than any sort of utterance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Per certas historias habetur Ducem Danorum Ogerum conquisiuisse has terras, et in exaltatione sanctarum Apostoli relliquiarum fecisse fieri præfatam spectactilem Ecclesiam, ac intra, eum reponi in nobilissimo loculo gemmis auro, argentoque decenter ornato ❋ Unknown (2004)

Per certas historias habetur Ducem Danorum Ogerum conquisiuisse has terras, et in exaltatione sanctarum Apostoli relliquiarum fecisse fieri pr鎓atam spectactilem Ecclesiam, ac intra, eum reponi in nobilissimo loculo gemmis auro, argentoque decenter ornato ❋ Unknown (2003)

Indeed, no one ought to be censured for so doing, provided that it be done properly in every respect (si modo decenter ex omni parte fiet), that is, provided there is a sense of whole - ness, a sense of “style” to his enterprise. ❋ EDWARD E. LOWINSKY (1968)

"Oh, I say! wouldn't it be decenter to manage the thing ourselves, without letting anybody who doesn't know him meddle in it?" ❋ Isabel Hornibrook (N/A)

He had just been complaining to his companions that his hand had been refused for the dance by a girl at whom he pointed the red finger of wrath, -- a pale, but very interesting seamstress, who was whirling about with a much decenter young man than the red one is ever likely to be. ❋ Various (N/A)

And if yo 'cud stay and marry me and civilize me, I'd try to brush up and be a decenter man than I ever war; leastways, I'd clar ev'ry rock and thorn outer yer path.' ❋ C. C. Goodwin (N/A)

"The space you're using in Borealis is wanted for decenter purposes," it read. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)