Definition of decree

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Decree (n.) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.

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Fatality :: Fatality (n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Divorce :: Divorce (n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
Undecreed :: Undecreed (a.) Reversed or nullified by decree, as something previously decreed..
Decerniture :: Decerniture (n.) A decree or sentence of a court.
Undecreed :: Undecreed (a.) Not decreed.
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death..
Fulminate :: Fulminate (v. i.) To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
Decretory :: Decretory (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
Annul :: Annul (a.) To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority..
Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate..
Foredetermine :: Foredetermine (v. t.) To determine or decree beforehand.
Pnyx :: Pnyx (n.) The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc..
Result :: Result (n.) The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death..
Interdict :: Interdict (n.) A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
Absolutism :: Absolutism (n.) Doctrine of absolute decrees.
Recess :: Recess (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Nullity :: Nullity (n.) Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists..
Irrevocable :: Irrevocable (a.) Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate..
Promulgate :: Promulgate (v. t.) To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council..
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