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

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..

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

Decree :: Decree (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty..

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..

Enactor :: Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.

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..

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

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

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

Will :: Will (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.

Decrete :: Decrete (n.) A decree.

Appoint :: Appoint (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of..

Sentence :: Sentence (v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.

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

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

Dualism :: Dualism (n.) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate..

Placit :: Placit (n.) A decree or determination; a dictum.

Decree :: 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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