Meaning of decard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To discard (get rid of a card).
   obsolete
2. To discard (throw away or reject)
   obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“Philocles. Can you decard, madam? Queen. Hardly, but I must do hurt.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You cannot, sir; you have cast those by, decarded P'em; And, in a noble mind, so low and loosely To look back, and collect such lumps, and lick 'em Into new horrid forms again--”

“The king therefore sent for Midletoun, his commissioner, decards him, and Sir John Flesser, his advocat, with him; calls for Lord Rothes, and appoints him to be commissioner, and calls a parliament, and sends down Lautherdale to see that act annulled, and matters put in a right order.”

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