Definition of decree

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Decree (v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property..

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Condemnatory :: Condemnatory (a.) Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree..
Attentat :: Attentat (n.) A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed..
Decretal :: Decretal (a.) Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle..
Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute..
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..
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..
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..
Senatusconsult :: Senatusconsult (n.) A decree of the Roman senate.
Pragmatic :: Pragmatic (n.) A solemn public ordinance or decree.
Areed :: Areed (v. t.) To decree; to adjudge.
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.
Predetermine :: Predetermine (v. t.) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
Recess :: Recess (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Recall :: Recall (v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree..
Affirm :: Affirm (v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review..
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..
Fiaunt :: Fiaunt (n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.
Interlocution :: Interlocution (n.) An intermediate act or decree before final decision.
Decreeable :: Decreeable (a.) Capable of being decreed.
Decretive :: Decretive (n.) Having the force of a decree; determining.
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