Definition of decree

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Decree (n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils..

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Decreeable :: Decreeable (a.) Capable of being decreed.
Fatality :: Fatality (n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Emit :: Emit (v. t.) To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit..
Placit :: Placit (n.) A decree or determination; a dictum.
Divorce :: Divorce (n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
Predestinate :: Predestinate (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.
Irade :: Irade (n.) A decree of the Sultan.
Firman :: Firman (n.) In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance..
Saw :: Saw (v. t.) Dictate; command; decree.
Rescission :: Rescission (n.) The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment..
Obtemper :: Obtemper (v. t. & i.) To obey (a judgment or decree).
Appointment :: Appointment (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments..
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..
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..
Fiaunt :: Fiaunt (n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.
Decretive :: Decretive (n.) Having the force of a decree; determining.
Arret :: Arret (n.) A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign..
Areed :: Areed (v. t.) To decree; to adjudge.
Act :: Act (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress..
Preordinance :: Preordinance (n.) Antecedent decree or determination.
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