Definition of decree

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Decree (v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.

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Predestinate :: Predestinate (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.
Decreeable :: Decreeable (a.) Capable of being decreed.
Adjudicate :: Adjudicate (v. t.) To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..
Decree :: Decree (v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
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..
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death..
Enactor :: Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
Attentat :: Attentat (n.) A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed..
Decretorily :: Decretorily (adv.) In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.
Recall :: Recall (v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree..
Irreversible :: Irreversible (a.) Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree..
Saw :: Saw (v. t.) Dictate; command; decree.
Pragmatic :: Pragmatic (n.) A solemn public ordinance or decree.
Irade :: Irade (n.) A decree of the Sultan.
Decrete :: Decrete (n.) A decree.
Recess :: Recess (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Predetermine :: Predetermine (v. t.) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
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..
Hatti-sherif :: Hatti-sherif (n.) A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.
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