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de-zo · W178

dezo · death, dying (organism-decrease, non-agentive) · ✅

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Domain biology / ethics / theology
Class event / state
Type compound
Register standard / biological / philosophical / theological
First use Star Wars, Jedi Code line 5 (S592): no-de-zo ne / ara ne

Composition

de (decrease/end) + zo (living thing) = organism-decrease. Head: zo (it IS a living thing that undergoes); de specifies direction of change (decrease to zero).

Definition

Death; dying; the natural or non-deliberate cessation of a living thing. Organism-decrease — the process by which a living entity (zo) diminishes to the point of cessation (de). Non-agentive: death happens to an organism; not performed by an agent.

Notes

de-zo is non-agentive (natural or accidental death). The agentive form is ka-de-zo (W128, deliberate killing). Referenced in W128 notes but first explicitly attested here. The Jedi Code: no-de-zo ne / ara ne = "no dying / universal-energy prevails." Death is not replaced by zo-ra (W117, life-energy) but by ara, the universal substrate itself.

de (primitive), zo (primitive), ka-de-zo (W128 deliberate killing), zo-ra (W117 life-energy)

In the corpus

10 attestations.

S# Tonesu
S606 de-zo-ki ne wi-ra-su lo-de-zo
Necromancy is the magic of transformation through death.
S684 a-zo-li ne de-zo
All persons are mortal.
S686 go a-zo-li ne de-zo , go la-Sokrates ne zo-li , la-Sokrates ne de-zo
Because all persons are mortal, and because Socrates is a person: Socrates is mortal.
S690 i-zo-li ne de-zo
A particular person is mortal.
S694 la-li to {la-Sokrates ne de-zo}
I hold [that Sokrates is mortal] as my conception.
S695 la-li to-su {la-Sokrates ne de-zo}
I have organized knowledge [that Sokrates is mortal].
S719 de-zo'ka-be ne wi-ra ; ru-fe, be go-si ko-de lo ka-be-zo
Dead labor is directed power; only: [it] grows by devouring living labor.
S969 de-zo-ki ne ge-ki go-si de-zo
Necromancy is transmutation constrained to the death-domain.
S974 la-to-su lo-wi-ra-su ne no-su-to / ke, la-to-su lo-wi-ra-su no to-su-ki lo-to-fe {ki ; be ; se} ne {de-zo ; pa ; ra ; to ; ge}
The legacy school list does not comprehend the boundary between operator and domain.
S975 la-to-su lo-wi-ra-su su-ka lo-pa ne lo-be-ki ; su-ka lo-ra ne lo-be-ki ; su-ka lo-to ne lo-se-ki ; su-ka lo-ge ne lo-se-ki ; su-ka lo-de-zo ne lo-ge-ki
A better magical curriculum groups domains under shared operator families.
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