1. deceased - Noun
2. deceased - Adjective
4. deceased - Adjective Satellite
of Decease
Passed away; dead; gone.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. Don DeLillo
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased. Anton Chekhov
The spirit walks of every day deceased. Edward Young
Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another. Anton Chekhov
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. Hermann Broch
If the deceased is no good, one shouldn't waste good candles on him. Portuguese Proverb