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Decency
Decency is iconologically describ’d by a comely youth, because decency is the ornament of
life, cloth’d with a lion’s skin, as an emblem of strength of mind, a requisite necessiary
for those who will observe an exact decorum in all their actions. In his hand a sprig
of amaranthus, and on his head a chaplet of the same, to denote continuance, because
it never withers. On his right foot a buskin, and on his left a sandal, to
denote decency in behaviour or dress; the first belong’d to persons of the superiour,
the latter to those of the most inferiour rank.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Dark Cully *
Decrepitaˊtion [with Chymists]