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Predestine :: Predestine (v. t.) To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.

Annul :: Annul (a.) To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority..

Fulminate :: Fulminate (v. i.) To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

Decretal :: Decretal (a.) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort..

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..

Fiat :: Fiat (n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.

Fate :: Fate (n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Affirm :: Affirm (v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review..

Emit :: Emit (v. t.) To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit..

Decretory :: Decretory (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled.

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

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.

Injunction :: Injunction (n.) That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.

Predestinate :: Predestinate (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.

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..

Recall :: Recall (v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree..

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..

Decretorily :: Decretorily (adv.) In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.

Recess :: Recess (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

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..

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