To run through from first to last; to repeat like a
schoolboy declining a noun.

A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution
or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending
toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the
decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.

To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause
to bend, or fall.

To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of
grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.

To cause to decrease or diminish.

To turn away; to shun; to refuse; – the opposite of
accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.

To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction;
to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to
fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue
declines; religion declines; business declines.

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward
direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
despondency, etc.; to condescend.

To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to
withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that
declines from sound morals.

To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to
refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to
decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation
with them.