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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.

Abrogate :: Abrogate (v. t.) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc..

Decrete :: Decrete (n.) A decree.

Decree :: 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..

Fatality :: Fatality (n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility..

Doom :: Doom (v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

Hatti-sherif :: Hatti-sherif (n.) A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.

Will :: Will (v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.

Stern :: Stern (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree..

Enroll :: Enroll (n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist..

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

Interdiction :: Interdiction (n.) The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict.

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

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

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..

Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate..

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.

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

Law :: Law (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority..

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..

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