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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Appointment :: Appointment (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments..
Fated :: Fated (p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people..
Decretory :: Decretory (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
Confated :: Confated (p.a.) Fated or decreed with something else.
Execute :: Execute (v. t.) To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process..
Enactment :: Enactment (n.) That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment..
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..
Will :: Will (v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.
Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..
Orthodox :: Orthodox (a.) According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc..
Fatality :: Fatality (n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility..
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..
Canonization :: Canonization (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.
Saw :: Saw (v. t.) Dictate; command; decree.
Law :: Law (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority..
Irreversible :: Irreversible (a.) Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree..
Fiaunt :: Fiaunt (n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death..
Decreet :: Decreet (n.) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided..
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