decease

Death, departure from life.countableformaluncountable

• So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease […]
• I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.

To die.archaic

• After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.

To cause to die.formaltransitive