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Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant..

Obtemper :: Obtemper (v. t. & i.) To obey (a judgment or decree).

Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate..

Divorce :: Divorce (n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

Abolition :: Abolition (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc..

Condemnatory :: Condemnatory (a.) Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree..

Infralapsarian :: Infralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; -- opposed to Supralapsarian. The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God's original purpose in regard to men.

Decreed :: Decreed (imp. & p. p.) of Decre.

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..

Interdict :: Interdict (n.) A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.

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..

Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death..

Predetermine :: Predetermine (v. t.) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.

Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.

Rescind :: Rescind (v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment..

Dit :: Dit (n.) A word; a decree.

Undecreed :: Undecreed (a.) Not decreed.

Irrevocable :: Irrevocable (a.) Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate..

Decerniture :: Decerniture (n.) A decree or sentence of a court.

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..

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