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Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..

Adjudicate :: Adjudicate (v. t.) To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree..

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

Decree :: Decree (n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils..

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

Decreet :: Decreet (n.) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided..

Decerniture :: Decerniture (n.) A decree or sentence of a court.

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

Preordinance :: Preordinance (n.) Antecedent decree or determination.

Pragmatic :: Pragmatic (n.) A solemn public ordinance or decree.

Fiaunt :: Fiaunt (n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.

Decrete :: Decrete (n.) A decree.

Fatality :: Fatality (n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

Foredetermine :: Foredetermine (v. t.) To determine or decree beforehand.

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

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..

Appointment :: Appointment (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments..

Nullity :: Nullity (n.) Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists..

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree..

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.

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