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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Undecreed :: Undecreed (a.) Reversed or nullified by decree, as something previously 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..
Fated :: Fated (p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people..
Rescission :: Rescission (n.) The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment..
Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..
Decreet :: Decreet (n.) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided..
Placit :: Placit (n.) A decree or determination; a dictum.
Decrete :: Decrete (n.) A decree.
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..
Decreed :: Decreed (imp. & p. p.) of Decre.
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..
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.
Will :: Will (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.
Senatusconsult :: Senatusconsult (n.) A decree of the Roman senate.
Preordinance :: Preordinance (n.) Antecedent decree or determination.
Enroll :: Enroll (n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist..
Fiat :: Fiat (n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death..
Decree :: Decree (v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
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