dē-dĕcet, cuit, 2
* V. impers. (very rarely pers., v.infra, II.), it is unseemly, unsuitable, unbecoming: decere quasi aptum esse consentaneumque tempori et personae, etc.... contraque item dedecere,Cic. Or. 22, 74.
* Prop. (class.; usually connected with a negation), construed like decet (q. v.), with nom. or inf. rei, and with acc. pers. or absol.
* Neque te ministrum dedecet myrtus neque me sub arta vite bibentem, Hor. Od. 1, 38, 7: me usus precum,Ov. M. 6, 689: nihil se,id. Rem. Am. 410. In plur.: nec dominam motae dedecuere comae,Ov. Am. 1, 7, 12; 3, 15, 4.
* By poet. license person. as a v. a., to dishonor, neglect a thing: si non dedecui tua jussa,Stat. Th. 10, 340: Atticus Claudiorum imagines dedecere videbatur,Tac. A. 2, 43.
* Oratorem irasci minime decet, simulare non dedecet, Cic. Tusc. 4, 25; Ov. A. A. 2, 530: togam removeri,Quint. 11, 3, 124.
* (Togae) extremam oram rejecisse non dedecet, Quint. 11, 3, 140; Hor. Od. 2, 12, 17.
* Ut iis, quae habent, modice et scienter utantur, et ut ne dedeceat, Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 132.