decard
verb1
Obsolete To discard (get rid of a card).
- 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.1532, Gilbert Walker, A Manifest Detection of the moste vyle and detestable use of Diceplay, and other practises lyke the same, Democritus:
- Philocles. Can you decard, madam? Queen. Hardly, but I must do hurt.1608, Lewis Machin, The Dumb Knight:
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Obsolete To discard (throw away or reject)
- 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.1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, volume 2, page 54:
- 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.1609, Simion Grahame, The Anatomie of Hvmors, page 18:
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- 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--1621, John Fletcher, The Pilgrim:
- 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.1818, Robert Law, edited by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Memorialls, page 12: