Definition of decree

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Decree (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty..

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Pragmatic :: Pragmatic (n.) A solemn public ordinance or decree.
Rogation :: Rogation (n.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree..
Edict :: Edict (n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch..
Undecreed :: Undecreed (a.) Not decreed.
Nullity :: Nullity (n.) Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists..
Adjudicate :: Adjudicate (v. t.) To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree..
Rescission :: Rescission (n.) The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment..
Destine :: Destine (v. t.) To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for..
Decree :: Decree (v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
Law :: Law (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority..
Appoint :: Appoint (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of..
Predetermine :: Predetermine (v. t.) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
Will :: Will (v. i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.
Pnyx :: Pnyx (n.) The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc..
Promulgate :: Promulgate (v. t.) To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council..
Undecreed :: Undecreed (a.) Reversed or nullified by decree, as something previously decreed..
Hatti-sherif :: Hatti-sherif (n.) A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.
Reversed :: Reversed (a.) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree..
Heterodox :: Heterodox (a.) Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects..
Decretory :: Decretory (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
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