Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of decree is as below...

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.

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

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..

Result :: Result (n.) The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

Irrevocable :: Irrevocable (a.) Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate..

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

Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.

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

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..

Will :: Will (v. i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.

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.

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

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

Senatusconsult :: Senatusconsult (n.) A decree of the Roman senate.

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

Protestant :: Protestant (v.) One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church..

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

Enjoin :: Enjoin (v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

Affirm :: Affirm (v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review..

Random Fonts

Most Popular