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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Fated :: Fated (p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people..
Pnyx :: Pnyx (n.) The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc..
Decreed :: Decreed (imp. & p. p.) of Decre.
Obtemper :: Obtemper (v. t. & i.) To obey (a judgment or decree).
Rescission :: Rescission (n.) The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment..
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..
Result :: Result (n.) The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
Enactor :: Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
Absolutism :: Absolutism (n.) Doctrine of absolute decrees.
Decretal :: Decretal (a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law..
Decree :: Decree (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty..
Areed :: Areed (v. t.) To decree; to adjudge.
Saw :: Saw (v. t.) Dictate; command; decree.
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..
Decreet :: Decreet (n.) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided..
Dualism :: Dualism (n.) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate..
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death..
Fulminate :: Fulminate (v. i.) To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
Interlocution :: Interlocution (n.) An intermediate act or decree before final decision.
Nullity :: Nullity (n.) Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists..
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