_"Predeceased" and "Designed."_--J. Dennistoun, in his _Memoirs of the
Dukes of Urbino_, ii. p. 239., says--
"His friend the cardinal had lately predeceased him."
Can any of your readers give me an instance from any one of our standard
classical authors of a verb active "to decease"?
The same author uses the word _designed_ several times in the sense of
_designated_. I should be glad of a few authorities for the use of the word
in this sense.